Hetzner: An Electrical Engineer From a Small Bavarian Town Asked Why Web Hosting Was So Expensive and Built One of Europe's Largest Server Operators Without Investors
In 1997 Martin Hetzner, a trained electrical engineer from Gunzenhausen in Franconia, started offering web hosting because he thought German prices were too high. He kept the company owner-led and free of outside investors, moved into his own data center park in Falkenstein in 2009, added Nuremberg and Helsinki, and later expanded to the United States and Singapore. By the 2020s Hetzner Online was running hundreds of thousands of servers, building much of its own hardware, and reporting more tha
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