Is Hetzner European?

Verified European

Yes. Hetzner is under verified European control.

Hetzner is owned and run by its German founder, Martin Hetzner, through a German holding company. The share register of that holding company is not public, so his ownership rests on the register filings and the company's own statement.

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Controlled by: Martin Hetzner, founder and owner, through ENSoXX Holding AG
Control sits in: Germany
Legal entity: Hetzner Online GmbH
Company register: Handelsregister, Amtsgericht Ansbach · HRB 6089
Seat: Gunzenhausen, Germany
Founded: 1997
Last checked: 30 October 2026

About Hetzner

Hetzner rents out dedicated servers, cloud servers, object storage, backup storage and web hosting. It is based in Gunzenhausen, Germany, and was founded in 1997 by Martin Hetzner. Developers, startups and businesses use it to run websites, apps and backups.

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Ownership

Hetzner Online GmbH (Gunzenhausen, HRB 6089 Ansbach) has one shareholder, ENSoXX Holding AG (Gunzenhausen, HRB 6211 Ansbach), which includes it in its consolidated accounts. ENSoXX Holding AG was registered in 2016 with founder Martin Hetzner as its executive board member, and Hetzner itself names Martin Hetzner as owner (Inhaber) and says it is owner-managed and not dependent on investors.

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Affordable virtual servers from Germany

Hetzner is a German hosting company that rents out virtual private servers. Its VPS plans are known for low prices, which makes them a common choice for developers, small businesses and side projects that need a Linux server without a large monthly bill.

Suits: Developers who want cheap Linux servers in Europe

Hetzner Object Storage

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Object storage from German provider Hetzner

Hetzner Object Storage is the object storage service of the German cloud provider Hetzner. It is meant for files, backups, media and application data that should live outside your servers, and it is billed through a simple base package that bundles storage together with traffic.

Instead of: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
Pricing: The base price is 5.99 euros per month for 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of traffic. Extra storage costs 5.99 euros per TB and extra traffic 1.20 euros per TB.
Suits: Backups and application data with predictable storage costs

Operations

Who runs the parts of the service we could observe from outside, checked 4 September 2026. A provider's control can differ from where its servers stand.

Part	Provider	Provider control	What we saw
Public website	Hetzner	European	A 213.133.116.44 · AS24940 [1] [2]
Incoming email	Hetzner company mail	European	MX 10 mail.hetzner.company [1] [2]

Hetzner runs its own data centre parks in Nuremberg and Falkenstein (Germany) and Helsinki (Finland), and also lists locations in Ashburn and Hillsboro (USA) and Singapore.

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