Hetzner was founded in '97, so cloud offering could technically still be considered relatively new. :D

You're right! I seem to have mixed it with some other dedi provider that added "cloud" recently. Thanks for the correction!

My point of people moving to Hetzner for the dedicated instances rather than the cloud still remains though, at least in my bubble.

No problem (I'm just glad you didn't read it as snark)! I mean, even 8 years is relatively new compared to their dedicated box offering so technically you were still correct.