Hetzner Cloud Reviews

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Hetzner Cloud
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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.

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Most customers praise low prices, solid uptime and good performance, often after leaving AWS, DigitalOcean or OVH.

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Moved Next.js production apps to Hetzner two years ago after platform outages elsewhere and reports solid uptime and performance for the price.

Nearly a year in and really satisfied with performance and pricing; support has been responsive and reliability solid.

Two years on Hetzner: a CX22 under 5 dollars is far cheaper than DigitalOcean and runs many containers, though only one public IPv4.

Moved from Vercel to a Hetzner CX33 with Coolify, found setup straightforward, much faster than Vercel and about 7 dollars a month.

They have run similar WordPress booking workloads on Hetzner CX21/CX31 and found the NVMe performance made a noticeable difference, with good value versus DigitalOcean.

Nearly 15 years after trying tens of providers: fastest, best support, cheapest, new servers available and billing only for hours used.

Over 15 years from a first-gen i7 to many arm64 VMs, service has been great and pricing acceptable, though extra IPs are getting expensive.

Hetzner servers have much better performance and price value than DigitalOcean but lack cloud services like k8s.

Pays under 10 dollars a month for an 8 GB Hetzner VM even after price hikes, and Hetzner emailed them about a misconfigured public Redis.

They moved one project to Hetzner with no issues and got an 8 core server for $20 a month within minutes, noting a two-machine limit for new users.

Compared with HostingUer it is much faster, cheaper and better equipped, and billed at the end of the month.

Never had any issue beyond a self-inflicted abuse email and recommends Hetzner to friends as cheap with the best service and support.

Never had issues running game servers on Cloud or Robot and later moved their company from AWS to Hetzner for better margins and performance.

Pleased with performance and pricing on cloud-optimised instances, but the 30 percent price rise means Hetzner is no longer the obvious no-brainer.

Coming from AWS, Hetzner is a breath of fresh air; very cheap especially in Nuremberg and happy to pay the increase.

Switching from Azure to Hetzner gave the same service at an eighth of the price, with critical services running great for two years.

Moved a small free site from Vercel to a 3.50 euro Hetzner VPS with Coolify; not super easy to set up but manageable with AI help and docs, and you must secure the server.

Hosts all Next.js projects on a single Hetzner VPS with Coolify as a Vercel replacement for about 10 dollars a month across six projects.

The cheapest 4 GB, 40 GB plan under 5 euros a month is the best offer and the admin panel is nice for technical and non-technical users.

Uses Hetzner for personal projects, has had no uptime issues and says it is cheaper than anything else they can find.

A VPS plus storage box for 20 euros a month, and a locked-out server got KVM details within 30 minutes on a Friday evening.

Runs everything else on Hetzner: cheap, reliable, fast, low latency to their audience and unbeatable networking allowances.

A Danish SaaS moved off AWS to Hetzner Cloud VPS plus OVH with a 90 percent cost cut, ISO 27001 kept and no outages on any node so far.

They use Hetzner Cloud VPS with daily automated snapshots kept for a week plus manual ones, which they find dirt cheap and reassuring.

They like that Hetzner bills prorated to the minute so they can start, stop and delete machines and be invoiced next month. They can now test their backups without paying for a whole month.

After trying many providers settled on Hetzner for production; nothing comes close even after two price rises this year.

Runs Next.js, Postgres and Caddy on a single cheap Hetzner VPS with Docker Compose, and pages are fast because the database sits next to the app.

Moved to Hetzner with Coolify and Cloudflare for price and full control, getting a cheap solution and plenty of disk for the database, at the cost of a learning curve.

Calls Hetzner excellent and very affordable with no risk of a massive DDoS bill, hosting a website and a Matrix chat server on the smallest instance via Coolify.

Switched from Vercel to a Hetzner VPS and finds it extremely cheap at about 5 dollars for 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM.

Runs an e-commerce store with 200 products on an 8 dollar Hetzner VPS handling 200-300 concurrent users in spikes without nearing limits.

Moved a Kubernetes cluster from AWS to Hetzner smoothly with way better performance for a fraction of the cost.

Moved 6 servers from AWS to Hetzner and still saved hundreds of dollars on load balancer bandwidth despite the price increase.

Compared OVH, Hostinger, Hetzner and DigitalOcean and picked Hetzner for the low price and amazing quality of service.

Runs a streaming platform with 2-3K daily users on Hetzner with Coolify for about 6.49 euros a month and calls it solid and cost effective.

Moved from Vercel to a Hetzner VPS with Coolify in a couple of hours and sleeps well knowing the cost is 7 dollars a month.

Best cloud and dedicated value for money but verification is poor and unclear and depends on the address given.

Runs 50-60 sites from brochure to large newspaper on Hetzner with RunCloud and Cloudflare and is migrating hundreds more for cost savings and flexibility.

Uses both Netlify and Hetzner with Coolify, is a huge fan of both and recommends Hetzner/Coolify to those who can manage infrastructure.

Moved a Next.js app to Hetzner with Coolify and calls the experience shockingly amazing for about 3.70 euros a month for 4 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD and 20 TB traffic.

Runs Coolify on a Hetzner VPS in Singapore with two Next.js apps, MongoDB and tools for about 14 dollars total, with Indian users seeing 50-60 ms responses and sub-2 second page loads.

Runs all their projects on Hetzner with basic Docker containers and calls it a very cost effective model.

Four years on a CX11 then the ARM CAX11; support handled payment issues well, with good pricing and reliable infrastructure.

Moving from GCP to Hetzner Cloud brought noticeable performance gains for less money; dedicated server reliability and remote hands support are excellent.

After bad experiences with Hostinger and Contabo, everything works smoothly on Hetzner with good prices and a nice control panel for servers and load balancers.

A few rough patches but good overall across dedicated game servers and cloud servers: low prices, good performance, brilliant bandwidth.

Never had downtime on Hetzner VMs or dedicated boxes and gets far more specs per euro than DigitalOcean, though billing without PayPal is a pain.

A company runs its servers on Hetzner VPS with load balancing; a reporting server that cost about 4,000 a month on AWS costs under 100 on Hetzner with ten times the capacity.

US account on Atlanta servers has had no issues for over 6 months, lower cost than any other host and hourly billing.

Runs many WordPress sites on a single tiny ARM VPS and uses Hetzner for everything from tiny to critical; price and uptime are unbeatable.

Loves Hetzner but lost a six-year-old site after an expired card caused a second suspension and the servers were released.

Hosts multiple Node apps via PM2 on a 4.55 euro Hetzner Cloud ARM server with 20 TB traffic and 4 GB RAM, handling over 10 TB a month, and says it works flawlessly.

Common questions about Hetzner Cloud

What do customers say about Hetzner Cloud?

Most customers praise low prices, solid uptime and good performance, often after leaving AWS, DigitalOcean or OVH. The main complaints are the recent price increases, which many say weaken the advantage, and support some find slow. A few had accounts blocked or deleted after failed payments or verification trouble.

Is Hetzner Cloud worth it?

Of the 327 reviews with a clear verdict, 55% are positive, 10% mixed and 35% negative. The praise mentioned most is great value. The most common complaint is poor support.

What do people like about Hetzner Cloud?

The praise reviewers mention most: great value (97 reviews), reliable (80 reviews) and fast (33 reviews). For example: Switched from Vercel to a Hetzner VPS and finds it extremely cheap at about 5 dollars for 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM.

What are the most common complaints about Hetzner Cloud?

The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (47 reviews), renewal price hike (39 reviews) and outages (31 reviews). For example: A Californian developer sent a passport, was rejected two days later and a reddit appeal was refused as final.

What does the signal score of 78 mean?

It's how well reviewed Hetzner Cloud 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 Cloud?

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Where do these Hetzner Cloud reviews come from?

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