Hetzner

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “moved my majority of domains to inwx from Porkbun after trying hetzner and openprovider for the same reason”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “With Hetzner I have to claim it back at the end of the year.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “I just buy cheap Hetzner Cloud virtual machines. The cost is marginal. Even with their latest price bump.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-07-01

• “I think hetzner is pretty good, not a lot of good cloud providers keep the port 25 open.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-26

• “Hetzner (a crow favorite) hasn't been that good for me while I was in the UK, I was getting dropped packets even after switching a few VPSes”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I have never had to prepay anything for Hetzner, not 20y ago for servers and not for the last 5-7 years for Cloud VPS”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after switching. So to me, Hetzner has the superior product.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “I have some nameservers pointing to Hetzner so I can use Caddy to do domain validation via API and get https (with dedicated domains) on private LANs”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “Hetzner really belonged in its category previously. I had scoured almost everything and nothing could provide the scale at price Hetzner did back then”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “self hosting on hetzner and it's somehow the holy trinity of cheap, fast and reliable”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-20

• “It's so bad I will be looking at moving off Hetzner at this point. 3x is too much.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “Did Hetzner change their price down? Remember, the industrial price also dropped (and they also build out a large solar plant). No ... Ok, inflation? But those price increases already covered part of that... Just saying, its not been the first price increase that happened. There have been multiple ones that Hetzner did over the years.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “I'm a Hetzner user in the US, but I pay for it with PayPal and was never asked to give my passport or identity.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “cheap Hetzner server is the best and easiest trick that happened in my work life these last years”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-01

• “the cost of the smallest hetzner machine which is 2.99EUR/mo”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “I love Hetzner's cloud UI. Happy customer for many many years with them.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-22

• “my old way of setting everything up myself with docker, postgres, nginx and etc on hetzner”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-11

• “grabbed the dedicated IP straight from Hetzner (they sell it separately), not through the ESP, which makes swapping providers painless”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2026-04-30

• “reduced our costs on Hetzner to about 10% on what we've paid on Heroku, for 10x performance”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-23

• “a €4 VPS from hetzner that serves 300M (million) requests a day”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “I got them over to Hetzner after a few months saving them 28k/month”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-19

• “Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives (I pay about 10 eur/month for 5TB of storage)”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “$350 a month on AWS versus 20 to 25 euros on Hetzner for similar specs, plus 20 TB of bandwidth included instead of being billed at 9 cents a gig after the first 100”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-11

• “For the same money, I get 10x of RAM, storage and CPU with Hetzner or OVH.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-03-30

• “moved on to a Hetzner VPS with five docker containers, Caddy, proper authentication and all. Plus a Storage Box.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-27