VPS Provider Reviews

Best price/performance in Europe

Hetzner is a German cloud and hosting provider that has built an outsized reputation in the developer community for one simple reason: it delivers more compute per euro than virtually any competitor. Founded in 1997, Hetzner started as a traditional dedicated server host but launched its Hetzner Cloud platform in 2017 to compete in the modern VPS market. Today, it operates datacenters in Nuremberg and Falkenstein (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Hillsboro (Oregon, USA), and Ashburn (Virginia, USA), giving European users ultra-low latency while also providing coverage for US-based workloads.

Developer-friendly with great managed services

DigitalOcean launched in 2011 with a single promise: make cloud infrastructure simple enough for individual developers to use without a DevOps team. That promise has aged well. DigitalOcean's Droplets (their term for VPS instances) remain one of the most straightforward cloud compute products available. You click, you deploy, you're done. But DigitalOcean has grown beyond raw compute into a platform offering managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka), managed Kubernetes (DOKS), App Platform (PaaS), managed load balancers, container registry, and more.

High-performance compute with global reach

Vultr was founded in 2014 with an early focus on matching or beating DigitalOcean on both price and performance. It succeeded on several fronts. Vultr has grown into a substantial cloud provider with 32 global locations — one of the widest geographic footprints in the VPS market — spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Africa. This global spread makes Vultr attractive for any application that needs low-latency coverage across multiple continents.

Easiest and most affordable entry-level VPS

Hostinger is a Lithuanian web hosting company founded in 2004 that has grown into one of the world's largest hosting providers, serving over 3 million websites. While Hostinger started with shared hosting, it has invested heavily in its VPS product, which stands out from competitors by offering a managed experience — pre-configured server environments, a proprietary control panel (hPanel), one-click WordPress installation, and 24/7 live chat support — at entry-level prices that undercut most of the market.

Reliable infrastructure with global reach

Linode was founded in 2003, making it one of the oldest VPS providers still operating. It built its reputation on simplicity, reliability, and honest pricing — values that resonated strongly with the developer community during the AWS complexity explosion of the 2010s. In 2022, Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies, one of the world's largest CDN and edge network providers. The acquisition has accelerated Linode's infrastructure expansion and introduced tighter integration with Akamai's global edge network (now marketed as Akamai Connected Cloud).