Moved Next.js production apps to Hetzner two years ago after platform outages elsewhere and reports solid uptime and performance for the price.
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Nearly a year in and really satisfied with performance and pricing; support has been responsive and reliability solid.
Moved from DigitalOcean to Hetzner and database jobs took a third of the time on cheaper shared vCPUs.
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.
Loves Hetzner Cloud though backups only reach back 7 days without snapshots.
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.
Using Hetzner for a few months: great value and zero downtime.
Chose Hetzner as the cheapest solution and found reliability and service far better than expected.
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.
Has used the Hetzner plus Cloudflare setup for almost every site they have built and finds it easy and cheap.
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.
Relies on Hetzner and finds prices still very good for the superb performance despite the increase.
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.
Two Hetzner VPS for about 8 dollars a month, billed only for use, with bulletproof service.
Runs 20-30 WordPress sites on a CAX21, upgraded to CAX31 for more cores, and calls CAX the best value.
Loves Hetzner for doing a few services very well at a fair price.
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.
Hetzner does great on uptime, performance, reliability and price.
Great console, uptime and documentation with excellent value for money.
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.
A GKE project costing over 1000 dollars a month would be about 100 euros on Hetzner with hetzner-k3s.
They use Hetzner Cloud VPS with daily automated snapshots kept for a week plus manual ones, which they find dirt cheap and reassuring.
Over a year in; servers are cheap and performance is great.
Runs a blog in a container on the smallest Hetzner VM, under 5 a month and more than enough.
Three years on Hetzner, reliable and cheap.
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.
Moved hosting from Azure web apps to Linux on Hetzner with Cloudflare edge caching and cut the monthly cost dramatically.
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.
Hetzner is super cheap compared with Google, Amazon and even Alibaba.
The cheapest Hetzner plan runs four websites, a bot and a proxy and is still overpowered.
Never had downtime on Hetzner and pays almost half of what they paid at Namecheap for much better hardware.
Hetzner prices are still competitive and quality is superb.
Moved to Hetzner a few months back and lowered costs significantly.
Switched almost all infra from Azure to Hetzner with lower prices and better I/O.
GitHub Actions runners at about 10 percent of the cost with better performance.
Happy long-time Hetzner customer running the cheapest VPS as a WireGuard proxy with no problem.
Serves 250k requests a month including a CMS from a 5 euro Hetzner box with under 50ms TTFB.
Hetzner has been reasonable and stable for many years.
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.
Hetzner plus Coolify has worked like a charm and is very cheap.
Switched from Vercel to a Hetzner VPS and finds it extremely cheap at about 5 dollars for 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM.
Runs Next.js on Hetzner with Dokploy for under four dollars a month.
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.
Hcloud raised prices but is still affordable and a reputable provider.
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.
Hetzner is a great deal for the specs with no issues.
Runs 20-plus apps on a single 10 euro Hetzner server using Dokploy after disliking Coolify.
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.
Loves Hetzner: cheap and works great, though based in the EU.
Best budget VPS provider whose IPs are not blocked everywhere thanks to identity checks.
Best cloud and dedicated value for money but verification is poor and unclear and depends on the address given.
Hetzner used at work for a long time; cheap and never had problems.
Unlike AWS, the costs for traffic and IP addresses are reasonable.
Hosts nginx and a React app with Coolify on a Hetzner server and it works really well.
Prefers Hetzner for frequently spinning VPS up and down; nothing beats its usability and pricing.
Runs around 100 websites on Hetzner with Coolify, paying only for a VPS.
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 Hetzner, affordable and reliable.
Fifth year and working like clockwork: faster and cheaper with no need to look for alternatives.
A user recommends Hetzner VPS for better hardware at a much lower price and has used them for years.
Uses both Netlify and Hetzner with Coolify, is a huge fan of both and recommends Hetzner/Coolify to those who can manage infrastructure.
Hosts a project with Coolify on a Hetzner VPS and calls it amazing, cheap and fixed cost.
Moved from Heroku-style platforms to Hetzner where a 4 GB machine costs 4 dollars versus 65-260 elsewhere.
Pays 4.5 euro a month for a Hetzner VPS for a small website.
Ran a k3s playground cluster on Hetzner Cloud via kube-hetzner for about 15-20 EUR a month for 3 nodes.
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.
Pays about 6 euros for Hetzner compute with Dokploy or Coolify and says the whole setup takes ten minutes.
Keeping a CX22 at the old 5.39 euros a month.
Uses Hetzner: relatively cheaper and likes the UI.
Hetzner is pretty good and cheap.
Uses Hetzner for self-hosting n8n and found it the cheapest option for the need.
Runs Mailcow and Coolify on a 4 euro per month Hetzner server and is very happy with it.
Hetzner virtual servers were incredibly cheap.
Runs all their projects on Hetzner with basic Docker containers and calls it a very cost effective model.
Runs multiple projects on one Hetzner box with Cloudflare and Coolify for only 18 dollars last month.
Uses Hetzner's smallest tier at 3.90 euro per month for a web app and database.
Pays only $5 monthly at Hetzner and it works great.
Four years on a CX11 then the ARM CAX11; support handled payment issues well, with good pricing and reliable infrastructure.
Hetzner VPSes are reliable and much better value; two projects for about 1.5 years with no problems.
Moving from GCP to Hetzner Cloud brought noticeable performance gains for less money; dedicated server reliability and remote hands support are excellent.
Six months with zero problems; cheap without hurting performance or support.
Moved everything from DigitalOcean to Hetzner for cost and performance, with no issues in four years.
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.
Coming from AWS, value for money, arm64 and Terraform support made the migration easy.
A few rough patches but good overall across dedicated game servers and cloud servers: low prices, good performance, brilliant bandwidth.
ARM VPS price was unbeatable; setup is easy and quick, with easy resizing and hourly billing for tests.
Has never found another provider with the same performance, reliability and service at Hetzner prices.
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.
Over five years finding Hetzner very affordable and reliable.
Moved from a 20 dollar DigitalOcean droplet to two better-specced Hetzner instances for the same money.
Current host performed well and is priced well but has other issues they dislike, so they want to move.
Since Feb 2021: good pricing, no downtime caused by them, simple and easy to use.
Moved personal services from DigitalOcean to Hetzner ARM: pays about half for four times more.
Hetzner is pretty good in their experience and still cheaper than Linode despite recent price rises.
Moved to Hetzner, halving cost while doubling specs.
Moved from DigitalOcean to Hetzner for better value and larger traffic quotas, with 20 TB outgoing traffic unbeatable.
Never looked back; loves price to performance, generous traffic, port speed and storage configuration.
Self-hosts Next.js on a Hetzner VPS with Coolify for about 26 dollars a month, which works like a charm.
Uses Hetzner as VPS provider and prefers it for support, price and quality.
Strongly recommends Hetzner as best value; machines benchmark better than DigitalOcean.
Long-time Hetzner customer who vouches for it as a simple, not-too-pricey option.
They run their API in a Docker container on a Hetzner VPS and find it very cost effective, much more so than DigitalOcean.
Hetzner keeps long-term customers on their original prices and prices things fairly, unlike earlier hosts.
Gets 20 TB of bandwidth, 4 GB RAM, 2 CPUs and 40 GB storage on Hetzner for about 4 dollars, preferring it to Vercel for control and profit.
Runs a Drupal social app on Hetzner Cloud: fewer features than AWS but more performance per dollar.
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.
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