ch customers and market. I searched for 5 years a reliable hosting company in Europe for a Managed Server at good price.

During these 5 years of research, I sent a myriad of requests for quotes. I tested some big guys.

Last year, I tested a British hosting company. It was a perfect "Fully Managed Server" only on paper, because "I, and only I" was the real admin of this server. Support was perfect, BUT technicians do NOTHING on the server: They only HELP you to do what you need or what you want. I spent to much time to run the daily jobs to secure, update, backup... All by myself. It was much too worries and too much time consuming.

More, backup was NOT free. When you are admin of a server, you need to backup the full of the server's HD or SSD. This way, server price was twice expensive when you select daily backup. It was much too expensive.

Finaly I found Hetzner. I firstly tested with a NON managed, dedicated root NVME and signed with a "Server Management Services" from USA. Big mistake, those guys failed to succeed to setup server. Next, I tried another "Server Management Services" from India. Same impossibility. Hetzner refunded my money after my trying with no question.

One month later, I signed at Hetzner for a "Fully Managed Server" without any hope. What a happy surprise! Everything works well. Without any worries. Without any sily and daily time consuming jobs.

I am delighted, speed there. In one word: Fastest of my many tries. My product pages load time are now under one second. Yes, under 1 second to display my product pages on a computer with ADSL connection from France.

I only contacted support one time about SSL certificate installation at the beginning of my contract (October 2017). Yes, it is quite strange, but everything is working well (I hope it will continue for a long time). So, no need to contact support.

What I love the most at Hetzner:

1 - This is a REAL Fully Managed server: Nothing to worry about installation, configuration, upgrading, securing... Worry free. Time and worries saving.

2 - Price is surprisingly low with value for money "price / speed" extremely pleasant.

3 - Free and Automatic 14 days Backup. Yes, really free, while many competitors charge for backups, at Hetzner it's free. I saved a lot of time thanks this backup service. I can now run my nightly websites maintenance with no worry. If the upgrade goes wrong, I get back my last website version within minutes.

4 - PHP Configuration: First of all, you can select any PHP release in a click of mouse. Also, you can turn ON / OFF APC, ImageMagick, zend_extension, Ioncube Loader, Source Guardian, eAccelerator, Zend Guard, OPcache and XDebug in a mouse click. You can setup mbstring.func_overload, memory_limit, max_execution_time, upload_max_filesize, max_file_uploads and max_input_vars the same easy way. I can test any new PHP configuration without open any file (and get back at the last confiuration if something goes wrong) all that at light speed.

Only one piece of information for Hetzner:

I'm waiting for the same Fully Managed Server with a NVME disk and an i7-8700 or an i9 processor for even more speed at the same low price.