DigitalOcean vs Hetzner

DigitalOcean is used by more websites in our catalog: 3,296 use DigitalOcean and 796 use Hetzner.

Hetzner sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (DigitalOcean: 28, Hetzner: 37).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, DigitalOcean went from 0.45% to 0.37% of all tracked sites, while Hetzner went from 0.11% to 0.09%. Hetzner is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so DigitalOcean and Hetzner are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.