I created an account on Hetzner. They had me verify my ID and send them pictures of both sides of my driver’s license plus my credit card. I got verified right away. People keep raving about how great they are, so we’ll be checking out their services.

I purchased the lowest cost server with the following configuration:

• Location: Nuremberg (eu-central)
• Image: Ubuntu 24.04
• Type: Shared vCPU x86 — CX22, 2VCPUs, 4GB RAM, 40GB SSD, 20TB Traffic ($3.99)
• Networking: Public IPv4, IPv6 ($0.60)

Final price: $4.59 / month

I named the server Mojave.

After a few seconds my server was created and ready to go. I received an email from Hetzner with further instructions.