Seems like everyone here likes netcup, me too. I was poking around their API and noticed there's a community OpenTofu provider for it ([rixlhq/terraform-provider-netcup](https://github.com/rixlhq/terraform-provider-netcup)). Ended up building a repo that deploys a Talos cluster on netcup VPSes:
**Repo:** https://github.com/mixxor/netcup-talos
3 control planes, 3 workers, Cilium, Longhorn, Traefik. About 47€/month on the hourly tariff.
Some caveats:
* no load balancer, so you need haproxy, DNS round robin or Cloudflare in front
* no S3, backups and state have to go somewhere else (Backblaze etc.)
* no CSI, so Longhorn on the local NVMe, which works fine
* you can't order servers via API, you still do that in the panel
Also watch out for the firewall, it's not stateful for UDP. Forgetting the NTP rule cost me a few rebuilds.
Was mostly a test balloon, but the API is honestly pretty feature rich.
Longer write-up with benchmarks and a price comparison to Hetzner if anyone cares (my site, has affiliate links): [What HA actually costs on netcup](https://www.eucloudcost.com/blog/netcup-cluster/)
Source: r/VPS · by /u/mixxor1337