The largest web hosting company in Germany is United Internet, the group behind IONOS and STRATO, which hosts 23.4% of all websites with a .de domain. Hetzner follows with 10.8% and All-inkl.com with 9.4%, so three German companies together host 43.6% of .de websites. The world's largest web host, Hostinger, reaches only 0.9% in Germany. These figures come from W3Techs, with data of 6 November 2026.
Top 10 largest web hosting companies in Germany at a glance
The ranking measures one thing: the percentage of all websites with a .de domain in the W3Techs survey that a company hosts, with all brands of the same owner counted together.
| # | Hosting company | Share of .de websites | Headquarters | Main brands among .de websites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Internet | 23.4% | Montabaur, Germany | IONOS, STRATO, InterNetX |
| 2 | Hetzner | 10.8% | Gunzenhausen, Germany | Hetzner |
| 3 | All-inkl.com | 9.4% | Friedersdorf, Germany | All-inkl.com |
| 4 | GoDaddy Group | 5.0% | Tempe, Arizona, USA | Host Europe, Domainfactory |
| 5 | group.one | 3.9% | Malmö, Sweden | alfahosting, dogado, one.com, Profihost, Checkdomain |
| 6 | Mittwald | 3.8% | Espelkamp, Germany | Mittwald |
| 7 | Anexia Group | 2.3% | Klagenfurt, Austria | netcup, Anexia |
| 8 | team.blue | 1.3% | Ghent, Belgium | Combell, maxcluster |
| 9 | Deutsche Telekom Group | 1.0% | Bonn, Germany | Deutsche Telekom |
| 10 | Hostinger | 0.9% | Vilnius, Lithuania | Hostinger |
| 10 | webgo | 0.9% | Hamburg, Germany | webgo |
| 10 | Your.Online | 0.9% | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1blu, manitu, ecomDATA |
Source: W3Techs, web hosting providers among websites that use .de as top-level domain, data of 6 November 2026. Hostinger, webgo and Your.Online have the same rounded share; W3Techs does not publish more precise figures, so they share tenth place and are listed alphabetically. Website builders and hyperscale clouds are not included; see how this ranking was made.
The largest web hosting companies in Germany in detail
The profiles combine the W3Techs share of .de websites with facts from each company's own publications. Brand shares within a group are also W3Techs figures for .de websites. Customer numbers and revenue are figures the companies report about themselves; they cover all countries, include activities other than hosting and are not part of the ranking.
1. United Internet (IONOS and STRATO): 23.4%
Almost one in four .de websites is hosted by a United Internet company, more than twice as many as the number two. United Internet AG, based in Montabaur in Rhineland-Palatinate, was founded in 1988 by Ralph Dommermuth, who still holds a majority. Its hosting business is IONOS Group SE, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since February 2023 and majority-owned by United Internet.
Two brands account for nearly the whole share. W3Techs attributes 14.3% of .de websites to IONOS, the former 1&1 hosting business, and 8.5% to STRATO. The rest is spread over smaller group companies such as the domain wholesaler InterNetX (0.3%), united-domains and 1&1 Versatel. STRATO, based in Berlin, came to the group from Deutsche Telekom: United Internet announced the purchase in December 2016 for around €600 million, when STRATO had more than 2 million customer contracts.
For fiscal year 2025, IONOS reported revenue of €1.32 billion and 6.63 million customers across all its countries. Both brands sell shared and WordPress hosting, website builders, email, VPS and dedicated servers. Compare IONOS and STRATO plans, or read IONOS reviews and STRATO reviews.
2. Hetzner: 10.8%
Hetzner Online was founded in 1997 and is based in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria. It is privately held and runs its own data centre parks in Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany and in Helsinki, Finland, with further cloud locations in the United States and Singapore. The company says it operates several hundred thousand servers.
Hetzner's share of .de websites is five times its global share of 2.1%. It is best known for dedicated servers and low-cost cloud servers, which developers, agencies and other hosting companies use to run websites, and it also sells shared web hosting and domains. Because W3Techs attributes a website to the company that provides its hosting, sites that an agency runs on a rented Hetzner server count toward Hetzner. From 1 April 2026 Hetzner raised prices on several products, citing higher hardware costs. It does not publish customer numbers. For comparable products, see our VPS hosting comparison.
3. All-inkl.com: 9.4%
All-inkl.com is the largest host in this ranking that focuses almost entirely on shared hosting. The company, legally Neue Medien Münnich GmbH, was founded in 2000 in Friedersdorf, Saxony, and is still run by its founder René Münnich. It has more than 100 employees, and its servers are in data centres in Dresden. According to the company, 80% of its new customers come through recommendations from existing customers.
Its share of .de websites is almost 19 times its global share of 0.5%, which shows how strongly it depends on German-speaking customers. All-inkl.com sells web hosting packages, managed servers and domains and publishes no customer numbers or revenue.
4. GoDaddy Group (Host Europe and Domainfactory): 5.0%
GoDaddy's position in Germany comes from an acquisition, not from its own brand. In April 2017 it completed the purchase of Host Europe Group for €1.69 billion including debt, which brought the German hosts Host Europe and Domainfactory into the group. In the W3Techs data, Host Europe hosts 3.0% of .de websites and Domainfactory 1.8%; the GoDaddy brand itself accounts for just 0.2%.
GoDaddy was founded in 1997, is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For 2025 it reported revenue of $4.95 billion and 20.4 million customers worldwide, across domains, hosting and other services.
5. group.one (alfahosting, dogado and others): 3.9%
group.one combines the Danish one.com group with the German dogado group. The combination was announced in December 2022, with the investment firm Cinven and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan as new owners; one.com founder Jacob Nordestgaard Jensen reinvested for a significant minority stake. The group is registered in Malmö, Sweden. Daniel Hagemeier, previously CEO of dogado, became CEO in 2023.
In Germany the share is spread over several brands: alfahosting (1.4% of .de websites), dogado (1.3%), one.com (0.6%), Profihost (0.4%) and Checkdomain (0.2%). Several of these were bought before the merger, among them alfahosting (2016–2017) and Checkdomain and Profihost (2019–2022). When the deal was announced, dogado reported more than 380,000 customers and group.one about 1.6 million. Read Checkdomain reviews or compare Checkdomain web hosting.
6. Mittwald: 3.8%
Mittwald is a family-owned host from Espelkamp in North Rhine-Westphalia that builds its products for agencies and freelancers who manage websites for clients. Robert Meyer founded the company in 2003 in an office of his father's printing business and still runs it. Mittwald started with TYPO3 hosting, added WordPress, Joomla and Magento in 2009 and launched its own management platform, mStudio, in 2022.
Mittwald runs its own data centre in Espelkamp, built in 2011 and powered by green electricity, according to the company. It says about 200 people work there, and it reported more than 4,000 agency customers in 2020. Its .de share is about 19 times its global share of 0.2%. For managed WordPress alternatives, see our WordPress hosting comparison.
7. Anexia Group (netcup): 2.3%
Almost all of this share belongs to netcup, which hosts 2.1% of .de websites; Anexia's own brand accounts for 0.2%. netcup is based in Karlsruhe and was acquired in November 2016 by Anexia, a cloud and IT services company from Klagenfurt, Austria. At the time, Anexia said netcup would stay largely independent, under its existing managing directors.
netcup has grown strongly since then. At the acquisition it had more than 40,000 customers; it now states more than 300,000 customers with more than 400,000 hosting products and over 550,000 domains. These are self-reported figures without a clear reference date. netcup sells web hosting, virtual servers and root servers, and is popular with developers and technically experienced users.
8. team.blue: 1.3%
team.blue, based in Ghent, Belgium, and backed by the private equity firm Hg, is one of Europe's largest hosting groups with 2.3% of all websites worldwide, but its footprint among .de websites is small. W3Techs attributes 0.9% of .de websites to Combell, team.blue's Belgian brand, and 0.2% to maxcluster.
team.blue entered the German market through acquisitions of specialists rather than mass-market hosts: the managed WordPress host Raidboxes from Münster in 2022 and the e-commerce host maxcluster from Paderborn in July 2023.
9. Deutsche Telekom Group: 1.0%
Deutsche Telekom, headquartered in Bonn, is Germany's largest telecommunications company. W3Techs counts websites hosted on Telekom's own infrastructure, and nearly all of the group's 1.0% is attributed to Deutsche Telekom itself rather than to its IT subsidiary T-Systems or its foreign operators. Telekom was once a much larger player in this ranking: it owned STRATO until it sold it to United Internet in a deal announced in December 2016.
10. Hostinger: 0.9%
Hostinger is the largest web host in the world with 5.2% of all websites, but in Germany it hosts only 0.9% of .de websites. The company was founded in 2004 in Kaunas, Lithuania, is headquartered in Vilnius and is privately held. For 2025 it reported 4.6 million customers in more than 150 countries and revenue of €275.4 million. See the Hostinger provider page, compare Hostinger web hosting plans or read Hostinger reviews.
10. webgo: 0.9%
webgo has been based in Hamburg since 2004 and runs its servers in its own data centre there. It sells web hosting, WordPress hosting, a website builder, virtual and dedicated servers and domains. W3Techs lists webgo as a German provider without a parent group. With less than 0.1% of all websites worldwide, it is one of several companies in this ranking that are active almost only in the German-speaking market. webgo publishes no customer numbers or revenue.
10. Your.Online (1blu, manitu and ecomDATA): 0.9%
Your.Online is an Amsterdam-based group that buys hosting companies across Europe, including Yourhosting, Versio, Gandi and o2switch. It entered Germany in 2024 with 1blu, which now hosts 0.5% of .de websites. In July 2025 manitu, a German host founded in 1997, joined the group through 1blu (0.3%), and in December 2025 Your.Online added ecomDATA (0.1%).
Other large web hosting companies in Germany
Below the top 10, shares fall below 1%. These are the next largest web hosting companies among .de websites in the same W3Techs data, with the same exclusions. Companies with the same rounded share are listed alphabetically.
| Hosting company | Share of .de websites | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Timme Hosting | 0.7% | German web hosting provider |
| OVHcloud | 0.5% | French host and cloud provider from Roubaix; 2.4% of all websites worldwide |
| DigitalOcean Group | 0.4% | US cloud provider, including Cloudways |
| IP-Projects | 0.4% | German web hosting provider |
| Keyweb | 0.4% | German web hosting and cloud provider |
| SiteGround | 0.4% | Managed WordPress host from Sofia, Bulgaria; 2.0% of all websites worldwide |
| WIIT Group | 0.4% | Italian cloud and IT security group |
| MK Netzdienste | 0.3% | German telecommunications and cloud provider, including the goneo brand |
| Namespace | 0.3% | Group of domain and hosting brands |
| PlusServer | 0.3% | German hosting and cloud provider, including Serverloft and Intergenia |
| TelemaxX | 0.3% | German data centre and IT services provider |
| Vautron | 0.3% | German data centre and hosting provider, including Antagus |
| Contabo Group | 0.2% | German provider of VPS and dedicated servers |
| HostPress | 0.2% | German managed WordPress host |
| Webhoster.de | 0.2% | German web hosting provider |
Source: W3Techs, data of 6 November 2026.
What the ranking tells us about the German hosting market
A concentrated market
Germany's hosting market is far more concentrated than the global one. The three largest companies host 43.6% of .de websites, and the twelve companies in the top 10 table together host 63.6%. Worldwide, the ten largest web hosts together reach only about a quarter of all websites, as our ranking of the biggest web hosting companies worldwide shows. United Internet alone hosts more .de websites than the next two companies combined.
German companies lead their home market
Six of the twelve companies are headquartered in Germany: United Internet, Hetzner, All-inkl.com, Mittwald, Deutsche Telekom and webgo. Together they host 49.3% of .de websites. Hetzner, All-inkl.com and Mittwald are owned by their founders or founding families and have grown without large acquisitions. The same pattern of strong domestic hosts appears in other European markets, for example in our analysis of the largest web hosting companies in the Netherlands.
Foreign groups buy German brands
Foreign owners reach German customers mainly through local brands they bought. GoDaddy, group.one, Anexia, team.blue and Your.Online together host 13.4% of .de websites, largely under names such as Host Europe, Domainfactory, alfahosting, dogado, netcup, maxcluster, 1blu and manitu. Most of these brands still sell under their original names, so many customers may not know which group owns their host. The consolidation behind these deals is part of a wider European trend described in our overview of the European web hosting market.
Global leaders play a small role
The largest web hosts worldwide are minor players among .de websites. Hostinger has 0.9% in Germany against 5.2% globally, OVHcloud 0.5% against 2.4%, and SiteGround 0.4% against 2.0%. Newfold Digital, owner of Bluehost and HostGator and number five worldwide, hosts less than 0.1% of .de websites.
Servers matter as much as shared hosting
Hetzner and netcup together host 12.9% of .de websites. Both are known above all for dedicated and virtual servers, which suggests that a large part of the German web runs on rented servers managed by agencies, developers or the site owners themselves, rather than on classic shared hosting packages. Mittwald, which builds its products for agencies, points in the same direction.
Website builders are a factor too
Outside this ranking, hosted website builders and shop platforms are also strong among .de websites: Shopify hosts 3.8%, Wix 2.7% and the Hamburg-based builder Jimdo 2.7%. Together with Duda, Webflow and Squarespace, these platforms host 12.1% of .de websites.
What this means if you choose a host in Germany
A large market share says something about continuity and the range of services, but little about which plan suits your website. Large hosts offer a broad range, while specialised providers may offer more personal support or better tools for WordPress or online shops. What matters is the combination of features, support, server location and the price after the first contract term.
If server location matters to you, for example for data protection, check where a provider's data centres are. Hetzner, All-inkl.com, Mittwald and webgo, for example, name German locations for their servers.
Our web hosting comparison lists current plans of large and small hosts side by side. You can also compare WordPress hosting and VPS hosting, and find current discounts on our deals page.
How this ranking was made
Source and date. The shares come from W3Techs, which segments its web hosting survey by top-level domain. We used the W3Techs data for websites that use .de, as published on 6 November 2026. The segment page shows only the three largest providers, so the shares of all other companies were taken from the W3Techs breakdown pages of each provider, which show the same .de figure for every host. W3Techs surveys a large sample of the most visited websites and updates its figures daily, so they shift a little from day to day.
Metric. The ranking uses one metric only: the percentage of all .de websites in the survey hosted by a company. This share includes websites whose host could not be identified. The metric counts websites, not customers or revenue; a host with many small sites can rank above a host with fewer, larger customers. Revenue and customer figures in the profiles are context, not part of the ranking.
Largest, most popular and best known. "Largest" in this article means the measured share of hosted websites. "Most popular" would mean the most customers or users, which only companies themselves report, in different ways and for all countries together. "Best known" would mean brand awareness, which requires survey research among consumers; we do not have such data, so this ranking says nothing about which host is best known.
Scope. The ranking covers websites with a .de domain, used here as a measure of the German market. This is an approximation: German businesses also use .com, .eu and other domains, and a .de website can be hosted outside Germany. According to W3Techs, .de is used by 3.9% of all websites in its survey. DENIC, the .de registry, reported in June 2026 that more than 18 million .de domains are registered; W3Techs surveys only the more visited of these.
Groups and brands. W3Techs counts all brands of one owner together, so each website is counted once, at group level. "United Internet" includes IONOS and STRATO, "GoDaddy Group" includes Host Europe and Domainfactory, and "Anexia Group" includes netcup. Brand shares in the profiles come from the W3Techs pages of each brand. Brands are listed under the owner W3Techs shows on the date of the data.
Ties. W3Techs rounds shares to one decimal. Companies with the same rounded share are listed alphabetically, so the differences between, for example, Hostinger, webgo and Your.Online are too small to call.
Who we left out, and why
The W3Techs data mixes web hosting companies with platforms that do not sell hosting you can use for any website. As in our global ranking, we applied two exclusions:
- SaaS-only platforms. Shopify, Wix, Jimdo, Duda, Webflow and Squarespace host many sites, but only sites built with their own builder or shop software. The same applies to smaller hosted platforms that are strong in Germany, such as ePages (0.4%), Onepage (0.4%), PortUNA (0.4%) and Gambio (0.3%).
- Hyperscale and developer clouds. Amazon (AWS), Google and Microsoft offer infrastructure building blocks that you have to configure yourself, and Vercel and Netlify are platforms for developers. These are different products for a different audience than web hosting.
| Excluded platform | Share of .de websites | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify | 3.8% | Online store platform (SaaS) |
| Jimdo | 2.7% | Website builder (SaaS) |
| Wix | 2.7% | Website builder (SaaS) |
| Amazon | 1.6% | Hyperscale cloud (AWS) |
| Duda | 1.5% | Website builder (SaaS) |
| Vercel | 0.9% | Developer platform for frontend apps |
| Webflow | 0.8% | Website builder (SaaS) |
| Squarespace | 0.6% | Website builder (SaaS) |
| 0.5% | Hyperscale cloud and Google-hosted services | |
| Microsoft | 0.5% | Hyperscale cloud (Azure) |
| Netlify | 0.3% | Developer platform for web apps |
With these platforms included, Shopify would share sixth place with Mittwald at 3.8%, and Wix and Jimdo would rank ahead of Anexia Group. The top three would not change.
Limitations
- W3Techs surveys popular websites, not every registered .de domain. Hosts with many small or inactive sites may be under-represented compared with a count of all domains.
- The .de domain is a proxy for the German market. Websites of German companies under .com or other endings are not included, and .de websites of foreign owners are.
- Company figures (customers, revenue, employees) are self-reported, cover different periods and include activities other than hosting. They cannot be compared with each other as a ranking.
Sources and references
- W3Techs, Distribution of web hosting providers among websites that use .de, data of 6 November 2026; Usage statistics and market share of web hosting providers, data of 6 November 2026; Usage statistics of .de, data of 6 November 2026.
- W3Techs, breakdowns by top-level domain for each provider, for example United Internet, Hetzner, All-inkl.com and Mittwald, data of 6 November 2026, and the group pages for United Internet, GoDaddy Group, Group.one, Anexia Group, team.blue and Your.Online.
- DENIC, Digital milestone: .de domains break the 18-million mark, 30 June 2026.
- IONOS Group, results for fiscal year 2025, 19 March 2026; United Internet, United Internet acquires hosting specialist Strato, 15 December 2016; Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Telekom sells Strato AG to United Internet AG, December 2016.
- Hetzner, Über uns (German), accessed November 2026; Tom's Hardware, Hetzner to raise prices from April 1, 2026.
- All-inkl.com, Unternehmen (German), accessed November 2026; Wikipedia, All-inkl.com, accessed November 2026.
- GoDaddy, GoDaddy completes acquisition of Host Europe Group (press release filed with the SEC), 3 April 2017; Data Center Knowledge, GoDaddy acquires Host Europe Group for $1.79 billion, December 2016; GoDaddy, annual report (Form 10-K) for 2025, SEC.
- Cinven, Cinven and Ontario Teachers' to invest in the combination of group.ONE and dogado group, 5 December 2022; group.one, Company history, accessed November 2026.
- Mittwald, Unternehmen (German), accessed November 2026.
- Anexia, Anexia acquires netcup for strategic alliance, 16 November 2016; netcup, Facts and figures, accessed November 2026.
- team.blue, Raidboxes becomes part of the team.blue family, 2022, and maxcluster becomes part of team.blue, July 2023.
- Hostinger, 2025 results, 23 February 2026.
- Your.Online, manitu joins the Your.Online family via 1blu, 4 July 2025; webhosting.today, Your.Online strengthens its DACH footprint with acquisition of ecomDATA, 10 December 2025, and Ireland's largest independent host joins a fast-growing European roll-up, 16 June 2026.
- webgo, homepage (German), accessed November 2026.
- Official websites: United Internet, Hetzner, All-inkl.com, GoDaddy, group.one, Mittwald, Anexia, team.blue, Deutsche Telekom, Hostinger and Your.Online.
Frequently asked questions
Which web hosting company in Germany has the highest revenue?
No complete comparison is possible. IONOS, the hosting business of United Internet, reported revenue of €1.32 billion for 2025, but that covers all its countries and does not show German hosting revenue separately. Privately held hosts such as Hetzner, All-inkl.com and Mittwald do not publish revenue, so a ranking by revenue would be incomplete. That is why this ranking uses the measured share of hosted .de websites.
Are IONOS and STRATO the same company?
They are separate brands with the same owner. Both belong to IONOS Group, which is majority-owned by United Internet. United Internet bought STRATO from Deutsche Telekom in a deal announced in December 2016. In the W3Techs data of 6 November 2026, IONOS hosts 14.3% and STRATO 8.5% of .de websites.
Who owns netcup?
netcup has been owned by Anexia, a cloud and IT services company from Klagenfurt, Austria, since November 2016. It still operates under its own brand from Karlsruhe. W3Techs counts netcup within the Anexia Group, which hosts 2.3% of .de websites.
Who owns Host Europe and Domainfactory?
Both belong to GoDaddy, which completed its purchase of Host Europe Group in April 2017. Together, Host Europe (3.0%) and Domainfactory (1.8%) host 4.8% of .de websites, far more than the GoDaddy brand itself (0.2%).
Which large web hosts in Germany are German-owned?
Among the companies in the top 10, United Internet (IONOS and STRATO), Hetzner, All-inkl.com, Mittwald, Deutsche Telekom and webgo are headquartered in Germany. Together they host 49.3% of .de websites. Well-known German brands such as Host Europe, Domainfactory, dogado, alfahosting, netcup and 1blu belong to groups based in other countries.
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