Hetzner

German hosting legend since 1997, as solid as their cars. Own datacenters in Germany and Finland plus locations in the US and Singapore, hourly billing, a clean panel and a proper API. The cheap CX line gives 2 cores, 4 GB and 40 GB NVMe for about $7 with IPv4, but since the June 2026 price hike it keeps selling out, and the always available CPX line costs two to four times more. Getting in is the hard part: expect an ID check or a prepayment, don't sign up through a VPN, and since 2024 they don't work with customers from Russia. Mining is banned outright, and in 2022 they pulled the plug on about a thousand Solana validators, so think twice before parking a node here.

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