Hetzner

Hetzner is a European cloud and hosting provider known for offering the best price-to-performance ratio in the industry. Their cloud servers (VPS) start at just EUR 3.79 per month for 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, and 40GB NVMe storage, dramatically undercutting AWS, DigitalOcean, and Linode for equivalent specs. Hetzner operates Tier 3+ data centers in Germany, Finland, Singapore, and the US (Ashburn and Hillsboro). Beyond cloud servers, they offer dedicated root servers with enterprise hardware at consumer prices, managed Kubernetes (soon), load balancers, floating IPs, volumes, firewalls, and object storage. Their dedicated servers are legendary: you can get a 64GB RAM, 8-core, 2x NVMe SSD machine for under EUR 50 per month. The Hetzner Cloud API and Terraform provider make infrastructure automation straightforward. Their Robot marketplace offers auction servers at even deeper discounts. DNS management is included free. Hetzner also provides colocation services for customers who want to house their own hardware. For indie hackers and startups looking to maximize their infrastructure budget, Hetzner delivers enterprise-grade hardware at a fraction of the cost of hyperscalers.