The way they communicate is better too. Both companies increased their prices in the past year. DigitalOcean announced[0] theirs in an article that mainly focused on a new cheaper droplet supplemented by lots of useless text about how they “ adapt our offerings to meet the needs of our customers and their desire to create software that changes the world.”

The link to the page with the new prices didn’t have some overview of the changes, and figuring out how much more I was going to pay was frustratingly hard.

Hetzner’s article[1] just clearly explained why they increased their prices and had a table with the new prices.

I really appreciate that no-bs way of communicating.

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/new-4-dollar-droplet-updat...

[1] https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/price-adjustment/