Nearly a decade of auction servers for offsite backups; 40 TB for about 60-65 dollars a month beats any cloud provider, though hardware is old.
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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.
69% Positive16% Mixed15% Negative
Dedicated servers far cheaper than cloud providers; price rises on existing servers are the gripe.
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Customer reviews (31)
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Got a 256 GB auction server with lots of disks for 130 euros a month and runs Proxmox on it.
Moved many cloud VPSs to a few auction servers running Proxmox and can create and rescale VMs freely.
Runs a couple of auction dedicated servers and cannot find anything better priced; switched from Contabo and loves Hetzner.
Runs Nextcloud and Immich on an auction server and finds it very cost effective, with 4 TB RAID-1 for under 40 euros a month.
Server auction compute is very reasonable, easy and fast with no network limits, but with occasional hiccups that required more retry logic.
A 38 dollar a month auction server with 1 TB SSD, 64 GB RAM and an i7 has been responsive and solid.
Happy with a 70 euro a month auction server that packs a punch.
The server auction is a brilliant way to get heavy-duty resources cheaply.
Eleven years on an auction server with no hardware issues apart from one disk replacement, though the price crept back to the original after two changes.
Used 3 Hetzner auction servers to process many terabytes with no setup fee.
An 80 euro Hetzner auction server with 128GB RAM beats equivalent cloud instances.
Migrated a 100 TB Elasticsearch cluster from AX-42 to auction servers for twice the resources at the same price.
The server auction has crazy low prices for very performant machines for heavy workloads.
Auction servers rose only 3 percent and provide very good hardware for website projects.
They previously rented dedicated servers from Hetzner auctions and found the performance per dollar amazing. They also said they were with Hetzner for 4-5 years without issues.
Client since 2018 with five auction servers; built a 24 vCPU, 128 GB machine for 58.70 euros a month.
Auction deal servers drew praise: a Ryzen 9 5950X with 128 GB ECC RAM and two 4 TB NVMe drives for 69 euros runs KVM and Docker fast, with free replacement of broken parts and unlimited bandwidth. Two more machines, a Xeon and a Ryzen 7, were also picked up.
Moved from DigitalOcean to a Hetzner auction dedicated box with 64GB RAM for about 40 EUR a month: nearly four times the power for the same price.
Got a Minecraft server from the Hetzner auction with the best offer and loves that it is truly dedicated.
Common questions about Hetzner Server Auction
What do customers say about Hetzner Server Auction?
Hetzner Server Auction is loved for dedicated servers at very low prices compared with cloud providers, and long-term users report few problems apart from occasional drive failures. The main downside is price increases on existing servers, though most found the recent adjustment small.
Is Hetzner Server Auction worth it?
Of the 26 reviews with a clear verdict, 69% are positive, 15% mixed and 15% negative. The praise mentioned most is great value. The most common complaint is renewal price hike.
What do people like about Hetzner Server Auction?
The praise reviewers mention most: great value (15 reviews), reliable (6 reviews) and helpful support (3 reviews). For example: Migrated a 100 TB Elasticsearch cluster from AX-42 to auction servers for twice the resources at the same price.
What are the most common complaints about Hetzner Server Auction?
The complaints reviewers mention most: renewal price hike (5 reviews) and outages (1 review). For example: An auction i7-6700 64 GB server went from about 32 euros to 73.42 euros after the price rises.
What does the signal score of 67 mean?
It's how well reviewed Hetzner Server Auction 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 Server Auction?
Category: Dedicated server.
Where do these Hetzner Server Auction reviews come from?
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