Hetzner, comparedHetzner is better hardware for the money. It is also German.

Nothing on this page is going to argue that Hetzner is bad value, because it is the best in Europe and probably the world. People arrive at a page like this for one of two reasons, and neither of them is price.

8 minute read · Their pages last read 30 juillet 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

Hetzner

Where: Germany, Finland, United States
Site: hetzner.com

What they are genuinely good at

Price to hardware, which nothing in this market beats. A dedicated auction machine there costs less than a virtual one almost anywhere.
Serious engineering: excellent network, a real API, storage boxes, load balancers and a console that works.
Scale and stability, with data centres it owns rather than rents.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where: eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site: dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 juillet 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published?	Hetzner	DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level.	No	Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround.	No	Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default.	No	Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier.	Published	Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule.	Not published	Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on.	Not published	Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask.	Partly	Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”.	Partly	Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another.	No	Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form.	Partly	Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell.	Partly	Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy.	Partly	Published

On eleven of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

The two reasons people look for an alternative

The first is the signup. Hetzner is a German company and verifies its customers; accounts are asked for identity documents, and payment is by card or transfer. That is a lawful, ordinary way to run a business and it is a wall if you cannot be an identified customer.

The second is what happens after a complaint. A German company answers German process and responds to abuse reports through a compliance function whose job is to reduce risk to Hetzner. That is not a criticism — it is the correct behaviour for that business, and it is exactly the behaviour somebody who has just been suspended is trying to get away from.

What we do not attempt to match

Their price on dedicated hardware, their auction market, their storage boxes and the breadth of their API. If those are what you need, this page has told you to buy from them and it means it.

What is here instead: no identity at any spend level, eight crypto assets and nothing else, eight jurisdictions each held by its own company, and a takedown process that starts with a judge. Those are the product.

Germany is a jurisdiction, not a neutral place

German law is not American law, so a DMCA notice has no direct force there. It is also one of the more active European jurisdictions for content complaints, with a well-developed practice of writing to hosting providers. "Not American" and "hard to compel" are different claims, and the guide sets out which countries are which.

Questions people actually ask

Is this cheaper than Hetzner?

No, and a comparison page claiming otherwise would be checkable in thirty seconds. Every price we charge is on the price list; put it beside theirs and the difference is the jurisdiction and the anonymity.

Can I pay Hetzner in crypto?

Not as a published payment method, which is what the row says. Here it is the only way to pay, and Monero is among the eight.

My server was suspended over a complaint. What is different here?

A complaint is read and answered, and forwarded to you in full with the complainant named. Content comes down on an order from a court with jurisdiction over the company that hosts it, and on nothing else. Every notice received is counted and published quarterly.

Buy theirs instead if

You want the most compute per euro available anywhere and your content will never attract a complaint.
You need their ecosystem — the API, the storage boxes, the auction market for cheap dedicated hardware.
Being an identified customer with an invoice is fine, or actively what you need.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue

Others of the same kind

Good engineering, and a compliance department. What changes when the company holding your disk is answerable where the complaint is filed.

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