Comment by habibur
3 years ago
Hetzner was launched [or may be got popular] after DigitalOcean took off.
Since then they priced their boxes competitively relative to DO. A little bit less. That's still holding.
Also note that at that time hosting in Europe wasn't a popular option, unlike what we see now.
You may be talking about their VPS offering.
Dedicated servers there were an option way before DigitalOcean, if I remember correctly (I recall at one point having some Linode and some Hetzner servers, DigitalOcean was not in the picture).
Hetzner has been around for 20 years, IIRC. Their cloud offering is newer, though.