Hetzner

German engineering, unbeatable price-to-performance.

4.8 6,710 reviews | Germany | Est. 1997 | 99.90% uptime | Cloud, VPS, Dedicated
Plans from $4.15/mo 100% off with a code
Speed
4.7
Support
4.3
Value
5.0
Features
4.5
Reliability
4.7

The verdict

Hetzner is a German hosting provider famed among developers for extraordinary price-to-performance ratios on both cloud instances and dedicated auction servers, backed by rigorous German data protection standards.

Best for: European developers Cost-optimized workloads Storage-heavy servers

What you get

  • Cloud & dedicated auction servers
  • Free 20TB traffic
  • German data protection
  • Simple hourly cloud billing
  • Robot server management

Plans & pricing

CX22
$4.15/mo
  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
CX42
$16.90/mo
  • 8 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM

The trade-off

In its favour

  • Best-in-class value for money
  • Strong privacy & compliance
  • Reliable network performance

Worth knowing

  • Primarily EU data centers
  • Support mainly ticket-based

Infrastructure & support

Support channels

  • Ticket system
  • Robot management portal
  • Community forum

Data centers

  • Germany (Nuremberg, Falkenstein)
  • Finland (Helsinki)
  • United States (Hillsboro, OR)
  • Singapore

Common questions

What is the Hetzner server auction?

It's a marketplace of discounted, previously used dedicated servers at reduced prices.