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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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 from DigitalOcean to Hetzner and database jobs took a third of the time on cheaper shared vCPUs.
Chose Hetzner Cloud for performance over DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode and IONOS and has appreciated it more over 4-5 years with no payment problems.
Nightly 50GB backups to Hetzner Object Storage fail about two nights a month; fast when it works.
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.
Cheapest Intel shared instances were slow; an AMD shared instance turned out the golden mean, with ARM good for databases.
Runs a custom Next.js e-commerce store self-hosted with Docker and Coolify on a Hetzner VPS; calls it incredibly fast and easy, and the shop sees sales up 20 to 50 percent.
Hetzner servers have much better performance and price value than DigitalOcean but lack cloud services like k8s.
Ran a Next.js app on a Hetzner VPS for a long time with a nightly recycle for memory leaks, and says it runs definitely faster than on Vercel.
In their experience all Hetzner Cloud servers can reach nearly 10 Gbit/s depending on neighbouring guests, though no speed is guaranteed.
Moved from OVH and was happy with better speeds at the same price but is going back to OVH after the price changes.
Server 1200 km away still gets 30 ms ping and they doubt cheaper providers match the quality of service.
Compared with HostingUer it is much faster, cheaper and better equipped, and billed at the end of the month.
Relies on Hetzner and finds prices still very good for the superb performance despite the increase.
After many providers and 15-plus years at Hetzner, it is by far the best for network, hardware and VM stability.
Runs everything else on Hetzner: cheap, reliable, fast, low latency to their audience and unbeatable networking allowances.
Account was rejected but tweeting Hetzner and verifying a passport got it approved; network is 10Gbps.
Over a year in; servers are cheap and performance is great.
Four-plus years with 20-25 VPS: great support, ace performance and notifications when there is a problem.
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.
Found Linode and DigitalOcean to have worse disk and memory performance than equally specced Hetzner VPSes.
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.
Serves 250k requests a month including a CMS from a 5 euro Hetzner box with under 50ms TTFB.
Moved a Kubernetes cluster from AWS to Hetzner smoothly with way better performance for a fraction of the cost.
Considers Hetzner more performant than OVH but keeps revenue projects elsewhere because verification is insane.
Dutch customer of Hetzner's shared hosting and VPS for 2 years with no latency despite servers in Germany.
Hosts on Hetzner Cloud plus dedicated boxes in Charlotte and northern Virginia and finds all of them ultra low latency to end users.
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?
Category: VPS hosting.
Where do these Hetzner Cloud reviews come from?
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