Hetzner

Well-known for cheap, reliable VPS and dedicated servers, and also offers managed web hosting. EU data centres by default; simple pricing.

Based in: Gunzenhausen, Germany
Licence: Proprietary
Hosting: cloud
Data residency: Data centres in Germany and Finland (plus US regions if you choose).
Free tier: No free tier, but famously low prices.
Paid from: Cloud VPS from roughly €4/mo.
Best for: Developers who want a lot of compute for very little money, hosted in the EU.
Alternative to: AWS EC2, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean

Sources: www.hetzner.com (Mon Jul 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time))