With 3 Hetzner servers and 3 elsewhere for redundancy, Hetzner uptime is about 100 percent over two years.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
51% Positive16% Mixed33% Negative
Most customers describe very reliable servers, fast hardware support and strong value.
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Their startup runs on Hetzner dedicated servers. The problems they have had were never Hetzner related, and the setup was just a server handed over with SSH credentials.
Has never had an outage on their Hetzner dedicated server, though they accept the tradeoff of no real SLAs or reliability guarantees in exchange for cheap prices.
Has had 100 percent uptime on a dedicated server and a cloud machine.
Across 30-plus servers only one motherboard and one RAM module failed in three months.
Locked self out of a server and Hetzner sent an 8GB USB stick with the backup free of charge.
Started with a root server for a gaming community, later ran family business workloads on it, super satisfied for over 10 years.
Runs 40 dedicated servers for over a year with no real problems and anything minor solved quickly.
Five to seven years with no complaints and faulty hardware replaced in 5-10 minutes.
27 years on Hetzner dedicated and colocation; never suspended and always reached real humans.
On Hetzner dedicated servers since 2015 with no unplanned issues, though support will not help with software.
Five DX182 servers for two years without a single failure.
Ten bare metal servers with a single disk failure in two years on the most write-heavy machine.
Managed about 50 servers for seven years with only wear-related failures and one lost device.
Ten-plus years painless with Hetzner across personal and business accounts, with about 5 VPS and 10 dedicated servers.
Vouches for Hetzner dedicated servers all the way for production, and values the server marketplace, while VPS and domains cost more.
Runs dedicated servers on Hetzner in Helsinki and Falkenstein from San Diego and calls it great.
HA Proxmox cluster across three Hetzner DCs worked fine once optics were replaced.
A few dedicated servers and shared VPS on Hetzner are all running smoothly.
Switched from OVH for the price and stayed for the support, network, hardware add-ons, auction deals and uptime.
Two years on a dedicated root server without outages from Hetzner and the best price to performance.
Fourteen years on Hetzner for stability and pricing and would not switch even now.
Over 10 years with no issues apart from having to report a server hardware fault themselves.
A non-EU customer for almost a year, extremely satisfied; dedicated contracts can be terminated within 30 days without charge.
Dedicated server reliability is 10/10 and Hetzner did everything to eliminate hardware faults, though unmanaged means no hand-holding.
Uses a Hetzner dedicated server in Finland for Australian users, getting a 2x10 TB spinning-disk ZFS pool for under $80 a month extra, with the extra latency fine for serving business documents.
They have used a roughly 50 euro/month Hetzner dedicated server for years without problems, and a missed payment only brought a polite reminder email.
Used Hetzner for many years to host Dubai clients' websites, where it worked perfectly with a CDN, and still runs two web servers there for the Australia region, which is not too bad.
Hetzner dedicated root servers have never let them down and host many sites at a good price.
More than three years without even a hardware issue.
Common questions about Hetzner Dedicated Servers
What do customers say about Hetzner Dedicated Servers?
Most customers describe very reliable servers, fast hardware support and strong value. The main complaint is the recent price increases, with some saying certain models now cost several times more, plus high setup fees outside auction servers. A few had accounts cancelled over payment or verification problems, and some mention weak DDoS protection.
Is Hetzner Dedicated Servers worth it?
Of the 78 reviews with a clear verdict, 51% are positive, 15% mixed and 33% negative. The praise mentioned most is reliable. The most common complaint is renewal price hike.
What do people like about Hetzner Dedicated Servers?
The praise reviewers mention most: reliable (24 reviews), helpful support (14 reviews) and great value (13 reviews). For example: On Hetzner dedicated servers since 2015 with no unplanned issues, though support will not help with software.
What are the most common complaints about Hetzner Dedicated Servers?
The complaints reviewers mention most: renewal price hike (16 reviews), poor support (8 reviews) and outages (7 reviews). For example: Dedicated servers went from 200 to 250 euros a month, nearly 600 euros extra per year that must be explained to clients.
What does the signal score of 72 mean?
It's how well reviewed Hetzner Dedicated Servers is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Hetzner Dedicated Servers?
Category: Dedicated server.
Where do these Hetzner Dedicated Servers reviews come from?
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