Companies Using Hetzner

We detect Hetzner on 19,374 domains, including Cbs Consulting, IBB, HDI Versicherung AG. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is IT Services and IT Consulting (9.05%).

We detect 19,374 domains running Hetzner across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 12,074 of them (62.3%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 372 domains carried a Hetzner detection previously and no longer do.

Hetzner holds 0.2% of the Web Hosting category, ranking #25. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Hetzner include GoDaddy (45.04% market share), Hostinger (12.26% market share), IONOS (6.56% market share), OVHcloud (4.39% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

Germany leads with 7,273 matched Hetzner domains, followed by United States (553), Austria (514), Netherlands (218), United Kingdom (217). These are counts within the 12,074 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 68.29% of the Hetzner domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 12,074 matched companies, not of all 19,374 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (21.53%) and 51-200 employees (6.62%).

Among the Hetzner domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (33.34%), followed by the 2020s (26.09%). That matched subset is drawn from 12,074 companies and is not representative of all 19,374 detected domains. This suggests Hetzner is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Hetzner customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: Germany, South Africa, or US, City: Munich, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~5-15 years old — based on our analysis of 12,074 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Yes. Hetzner operates data centers in Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon, alongside its original German facilities in Nuremberg and Falkenstein, plus a Helsinki region in Finland. Our data shows 4.81% of enriched Hetzner companies are based in the United States, against 63.2% in Germany. The US footprint is real but small relative to the German core.

They serve different markets. Hetzner's bare-metal and cloud servers cost 3-5x less than equivalent AWS EC2 instances. AWS offers more managed services (Lambda, RDS, S3), but Hetzner wins on raw price-performance. Our data shows 68.29% of Hetzner companies have 1-10 employees, and 89.8% have fewer than 50. AWS skews enterprise. If you need cheap compute and don't mind managing infrastructure, Hetzner is hard to beat.

G2 reviewers consistently praise Hetzner's pricing and hardware quality, and affordability is the dominant positive theme across review mentions. The main criticism is customer support responsiveness, especially for new clients during onboarding, which is consistent with an unmanaged, self-serve product. Our own data supports the price-led profile: 89.8% of Hetzner companies have fewer than 50 employees, and IT Services and Software Development together account for 15.4% of the base.

G2 reviewers cite two main drawbacks: slow customer support response times and a confusing registration process for new clients. Both are consistent with an unmanaged, self-serve product sold on price. Our switching data does not show budget-sensitive users leaving in any volume: only 7 domains moved from Hetzner to Hostinger over the last 90 days, against 8 arriving from it.

Both run their own data centres and compete on price-performance, and our data does not show a decisive flow either way. Over the last 90 days we recorded 3 domains moving from OVHcloud to Hetzner and 4 moving the other direction, counts far too small to call a trend. On scale, OVHcloud is the larger of the two in our data at 426,618 domains (4.39% of the category) against Hetzner's 19,374 (0.2%), though the two are attributed differently and that gap overstates the commercial difference. The practical distinction is geographic: Hetzner is 63.2% German, while OVHcloud's base is weighted toward France.

The closest US equivalents are DigitalOcean and Linode (now part of Akamai), which share Hetzner's developer-focused, competitively priced cloud model. Unlike AWS or Azure, these providers prioritize simplicity and bare-metal performance over managed service breadth. Hetzner itself now has US data centers in Virginia and Oregon.

Yes. Hetzner's German and Finnish data centers hold ISO 27001:2022 certification. The company is headquartered in Gunzenhausen, Germany, and operates under German data protection law. Our data shows 69.3% of Hetzner companies are in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), where GDPR compliance is a primary hosting requirement.

Hetzner Cloud launched in 2018 and offers virtual servers, load balancers, networks, volumes, and an API. Pricing starts at a few euros per month for shared vCPU instances. Our usage data shows Hetzner's growth rate doubled after the cloud launch, accelerating from ~2% to ~4% monthly active domain growth between 2018 and 2024.

Our data supports this. Of 12,074 enriched Hetzner companies, 68.29% have 1-10 employees and 26.09% were founded in the 2020s. The combination of low pricing, GDPR-compliant European hosting and a developer-friendly API makes Hetzner a natural fit for early-stage companies, particularly in German-speaking markets, which account for 69.3% of its matched base.

Martin Hetzner founded Hetzner Online in 1997 in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, Germany. The company remains privately held and operates its own data centers in Germany (Nuremberg, Falkenstein), Finland (Helsinki), the USA (Ashburn, Hillsboro), and Singapore. It now runs hundreds of thousands of servers across these facilities.

Yes. Hetzner opened US data centers in Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon, alongside its German and Finnish facilities. Our analysis shows 553 enriched companies using Hetzner are US-based, 4.81% of the matched total, against 63.2% in Germany. The US presence is a real but small part of the business, and no US enterprise appears in current detection data.

Rarely, on the evidence. Across the entire matched base we find only 81 companies with more than 1,000 employees and 9 above 10,000. The largest currently detected names are German mid-market rather than global enterprise: HDI Versicherung, Fröbel Group, Famila Nordost, sonnen Group and Hyand Group. Where a very large organisation does appear, it is normally a departmental or project workload rather than company-wide infrastructure. For primary enterprise hosting, most large companies still use AWS, Azure or GCP.

Both target developers with affordable cloud hosting. Hetzner's dedicated servers give it an edge for raw compute power, while DigitalOcean offers a broader managed services ecosystem (App Platform, managed databases). Hetzner's European data centers and GDPR compliance make it the default choice for EU-based companies. DigitalOcean has stronger brand recognition in the US market.