Have been customer with hetzner for more than 10 years and they are awesome. First physical server (HDD swaps in 10 minutes!) Now on their cloud environment. It just runs and is cost effective!
You can even use terraform to describe your resources and have them created automatically, or use the API from any programming language.
This article was undoubtedly sponsored by Shell...
Ev's get more and more range, they drive considerably better than the biggest gas guzzler and YES even if you take the lithium into account AND the production, they have considerable less emissions than the traditional car.
I don't know about the history of selfhosted, I use a vps at hetzner which serves as playground and I use a mini desktop (hp elitedesk) as my home automation lab.
This community is an inspiration on spotting new techniques and software to discover!
Debian testing is insanely robust. I am currently not running it (testing) because I use it for work, but my past experience has been excellent.