Hetzner is awesome.

I wish they would go public.

Would be very interesting to see how their business is doing compared to IONOS and OVH.

We need more public cloud companies in Europe.

> I wish they would go public.

I wish that they'll just keep on running a good profitable business without going public, or getting bought by Amazon, or otherwise shifting focus to providing shareholder value.

Why in the world would one want a company like this to go public? They are a very stable, established and profitable private entity. Based on what Hetzner is doing right now, it seems like the current way of operating that is intended by the leadership is closely aligned with what their customers want. This is often the first thing that goes out the window once a company becomes public

Compared to IONOS, it is day and night. IONOS in my experience is just worse in every category that matters. IONOS has buggy and bad wannabe SPA web frontend, broken OS images, bottlenecks in their provisioning API, that they don't care to fix, and 10x the costs.

If you are not desperate for one specific offering of IONOS, that Hetzner doesn't offer, and you have any other options, there is no good and justifiable reason to go for IONOS. IONOS is a low effort, low quality, high marketing spend shop. Hetzner is almost the opposite. They don't waste money on advertising, they cost much less to rent servers from, their OS images work, they got good technical support.

Why would you want a company you like to go public? To keep chasing profits to the detriment of everything else?

> I wish they would go public.

If they go public they will be bought by foreign private equity.

The last thing we need is more enshitification on this space.

I just migrated my selfhosted email server to Hetzner and I don't want them turning into monstrosity like AWS or Azure, with theit miriad of ways to nickel and dime the customers.

The comparison with OVH is a good one. For some reason OVH has much worse PUE, self-reporting 1.24 vs. Hetzner's 1.11. Operating costs are basically just electricity for these places, so their margins are that much worse.

For further comparison, Google at a similar latitude in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium, claims 1.08.

Damn Americans, can't think of anything other than "I wish I could make a buck off this, idgaf if it gets destroyed in the process".

Yes I agree, we need more public companies in Europe.

Private companies are inherently less social since they don’t allow ordinary people to participate in growth.

In this sense, they’re selfish.

PS: yes I know that there are also downsides to public companies. But looking at the trade-offs I prefer that success can be shared as broadly as possible.