BEWARE CANCELATION POLICY ON GERMAN PROVIDERS ​

If you are looking to run a remote server, it pays to know who is reselling who. Most 'brands' have a number of sub brands pitched at different types of user, you usually have the main brand offering higher spec's/customisation options with managed options, then sub brands that offer off the shelf products with limited/no customisation. Understanding who's who can save you a small fortune each month.They operate rollover contracting, if you've not given notice of your intention to cancel and sign up to a 12 month deal, they'll automatically renew you to a new 12 month deal. This seems to apply to all German providers. If taking a 12 month deal do the cancelation at the start - you can always withdraw it if you want later, but in this market it usually isn't a good idea to stay on the same hardware/deal for over 12 months, someone always had a better deal.OVH is based in France, but have space in DC's all over the world, they offer managed options and higher prices/customisation with 500Mbit guaranteed, has a mid tier option with slightly lower guaranteed speeds via SoYouStart (SYS) at 250Mbit on a a gigabit port and budget options via Kimsufi with 100Mbit, generally regarded as having very good peering and is a popular choice with other people looking for seed boxes.Links: OVH Another German host who offer a range of VPS (shared) and Root (dedicated resources) servers as well as some very expensive dedicated options. Value is decent on VPS/Shared and the peering seems to be better than Hetzner in anecdotal testing. Some debate over throttling of speeds if you average over a certain level and I have to say Hetzner Cloud is a better value option in my opinion as well as being a more modern/easy to use CP. The 30 day money back guarantee can only be described as 'If you try and use it, we will make the process as painful as possible' - also blocked several newsgroup providers (NGD etc.), Eweka is OK.Links: Netcup Geekbench: RS 2000 SAS G8 The other well German known budget option, main site offers a wide range of options, auctions side is good for preconfigured hardware, unfortunately prices have gone up as virtual currency miners rent cheap hardware to mine on. That's in the process of readjusting, so hopefully prices will drop sooner rather than later. Longer term the main site (with set-up fee) can work out better value. Hetzner has an upload cap starting at 20TB and going up the more you spend each month. Used to charge 1 euro or so a TB for going over your included data (they only count outbound), they now offer unlimited on all dedicated servers. German hosts tend to take longer to verify you and are less tolerant of (for example) adult content. Non German nationals pay sales tax on-top of published prices. Now includes 'unlimited' bandwidth on all dedicated hardware. DedicatedLinks: Hetzner Another German host who are less popular than Hetzner, main brand tends to focus on managed services, sub brands are Webtropia (3 options, can be customised) and ServDiscount (preconfigured ex. lease, like Hetzner Auctions). 300-500Mbit guaranteed on a gigabit port, no data quota. German hosts tend to take longer to verify you and are less tolerant of (for example) adult content. Non German nationals pay sales tax on-top of published prices.Links: Myloc Main brand has a wide range of options, sub brand is oneprovider, they offer cheap packages on paper (2.5Gbit port speed on a cheap box). Support can be slow via oneprovider if they need to refer to online.net, server speeds can also vary significantly even in the same DC/corridor. When (if?) it works, it's OK value. Guaranteed speeds range from 300-500mbit depending on the offer, realistically a Kimsufi box has been shown to manage the same sort of throughput over extended tests.Links: Online.net 1&1 & IONOS merged recently, i'll be honest 1&1 aren't generally a provider i'd recommend for anything as better options usually exist, however if you want UK based VPS, with 120GB SSD, 400/400 (unlimited bandwidth), no set-up and can live with 4GB/2vCPU (Xeon Gold 5120), then they are competitive. 30 money back guarantee, £1+VAT for 6 months and then £20+VAT for the last 6 comes out at £12.60 inc VAT average, but it is a 12 month contract.Links: 1&1IONOS Geekbench: XL VPS I'm bound to have missed someone, my experience is more with the budget dedicated hosts rather than the higher end, so feel free to contribute - also if you use someone, please feel free to submit benchmark results in the 'Post Your Benchmarks' thread.Updated 13/10/18 to include Netcup and mention Hetzner's new bandwidth policy.