Hetzner

The catch: the scan only sees who answers the DNS query, the front CDN, not where the data actually lives. Cloudflare 'wins' every market precisely because it's the proxy, not the host.

So one reader re-ran the question against 50,000 API subdomains with the CDN fronts stripped out and got the reverse answer: Europe leans on OVH and Hetzner more than AWS. Another, claiming access to better data, said the numbers are off by roughly half.

The CPX42 cloud tier jumped from €25.49 to €69.49 — a 2.7x increase that landed the morning it took effect. Existing machines are grandfathered; rescale one and you pay the new rate.

The thread's consensus isn't outrage at Hetzner so much as recognition: a cloud-infrastructure founder and several engineers traced it straight to the global RAM and storage shortage that's been squeezing everyone building hardware this year.