Often they do not actually sell you hardware servers, but VMs running on them, with designated properties.

Hetzner do both.. well rent, not sell, afaik

	▲	1718627440 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I ment selling time-shares, so yeah rent.

alt227 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree but this is not only easy to tell, you also specify when you buy AFAIK.

You either buy VPS or bare metal servers.