Hosting in Germany

A few days ago, I was looking for a good hosting company that offered openSUSE. Shared hosting was too restrictive, a root server was too expensive and too powerful as well, so the right choice for me was a vps (virtual private server). And what I found were very good hosting offers in Germany.

ispOne Business – 4,90 €/mo, 14 GB HD, 256 MB RAM (guaranteed) and 1000 GB/mo bandwidth. A very good deal indeed but it’s only available for DE, AT and CH residents.

server4you.de – 8,85 €/mo, 15 GB HD, 384 MB RAM (guaranteed, max 768 MB) and 1500 GB/mo bandwidth. I have heard that their service can be very bad or just ok. They have an openSUSE mirror.

Strato – 9,90 €/mo, 15 GB HD, 384 MB RAM (guaranteed, max 1024 MB) and 3000 GB/mo bandwidth. Strato is a well known company in Europe, but this time you need to have a German bank account if you want to have a vps with them.

1&1 – 9,99 €/mo, 10 GB HD, 256 RAM MB (guaranteed, max 1024 MB) and 1000 GB/mo bandwidth. This a well known company as well, but not a very good deal. Again, it’s only available for DE and AT residents.

Host Europe – 12,99 €/mo, 15 GB HD, 256 MB RAM (guaranteed, max 768 MB) and 1000 GB/mo bandwidth. This company has a very good reputation from what I have read on sites like webhostlist (German) and Web Hosting Talk. Host Europe’s control panel and FAQs are in German but the technical support can be in English as well.

If you are looking for a real server, take a look at Hetzner, they offer quad core servers with 8 GB RAM, 2x 750 GB HD, 2000 GB/mo bandwidth and much more for just 49 €/mo.

In the end, I chose Host Europe. So far, so good. And they have an openSUSE mirror. Downloading updates/software is uberfast! If you choose Host Europe as well, please put my customer number (206414) in the KWK (Kunden werben Kunden) field when you sign up, so that I can get a discount. Danke Schön!