Hetzner

Founded in 1997 by Martin Hetzner, Hetzner Online is a privately held, founder-controlled German infrastructure provider best known for offering cloud and dedicated servers at prices far below the hyperscalers. It owns and operates its own data center parks in Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany plus Tuusula in Finland, and runs additional cloud regions in the United States. Hetzner remains bootstrapped and profitable, and has become a default choice for cost-conscious developers, hobbyists, and companies looking to escape spiraling AWS bills, though its low-cost reputation is being tested by 2026 pricing actions, including a portfolio-wide increase of roughly 30-37% on April 1, 2026 that the company attributed to inflation in RAM, NVMe, and GPU component costs.