Hetzner – European web hosting
Family-owned German cloud and dedicated server provider founded in 1997. Own data centres in Germany and Finland, no outside investors, no VC pressure, delivering reliable European infrastructure at unbeatable prices.
Quick facts
Server specs and prices genuinely undercut AWS and DigitalOcean by a wide margin, with a control panel that's simple rather than dumbed-down. Spinning up a new server takes under a minute.
Support is ticket-based with no phone line, and there's no one-click app marketplace the way DigitalOcean offers – you're expected to know your way around a server.
Why does it score 98?
Incorporated in Gunzenhausen, Germany – a full EU member state.
Family-owned and bootstrapped since 1997, with no VC funding and no parent company to answer to.
Hetzner owns and runs its own data centres in Germany and Finland rather than renting capacity from anyone else.
GDPR-compliant, but the platform itself isn't open source and there's no publicized independent security audit, which is why accountability sits at the lower end.
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