Hetzner Online

Hetzner Online is a German cloud infrastructure and dedicated server hosting provider founded in 1997 and headquartered in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria. The company operates energy-efficient data centers in Falkenstein and Gunzenhausen in Germany, Helsinki and Tuusula in Finland, Ashburn Virginia and Hillsboro Oregon in the United States, and Singapore, serving customers in over 180 countries with a reputation for offering the best price-performance ratio in the industry. The product lineup includes Hetzner Cloud with virtual machines starting at under 5 euros per month featuring shared vCPU instances, dedicated vCPU instances with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors, and load balancers with automatic health checks, along with dedicated root servers from the AX and RX lines offering AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon configurations with ECC RAM, NVMe SSDs, and up to 10 Gbps network uplinks. The Server Auction marketplace offers decommissioned dedicated servers at discounted prices starting from 47 euros, while the Server Finder tool allows filtering the current inventory by CPU, RAM, storage, and price. Additional services include managed web hosting with Plesk, dedicated storage servers with up to 144 TB capacity using SATA and NVMe drives, vSwitch for private networking, block storage volumes attachable to cloud instances, and automated snapshots. The company publishes a community support forum, comprehensive documentation, and a recently launched engineering blog featuring technical deep dives on data center design, cooling systems, and server hardware. Hetzner is privately held and profitable with over 700 employees, known for transparent pricing and exceptional reliability with an SLA-backed uptime guarantee.