{"slug": "hetzner-cloud", "name": "Hetzner Cloud", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "German cloud provider offering low-cost VPS, dedicated servers, load balancers and object storage.", "recommenders": 19, "commenters": 23, "warners": 2, "score": 14.8, "rising": -3.56, "first": "2025-11-04", "latest": "2026-10-18", "why": "HN commenters recommend it for low prices and good value, a simple, no-frills alternative to big-cloud complexity, and being an EU-based provider.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 19, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [4, 2, 1, 1, 0, 4, 1, 3, 1, 1, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": ["Price and value", "Simplicity"], "caveat": "Price increases", "short_quote": "I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air.", "icon": true, "domain": "lithus.eu", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.hetzner.com/cloud", "pricing": "paid", "aliases": ["Hetzner", "Hetzner Cloud"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters recommend it for low prices and good value,", "cites": [{"id": 792040064, "item_id": 49502504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502504", "by": "dannyboland", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based", "excerpt": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based and one of the best benefits of AI is that running a pet server is no longer a real burden.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 778662640, "item_id": 48666415, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666415", "by": "oscarcp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the cost savings alone are insane", "excerpt": "I don't know your use case... we use only dedicated root servers (from the auction) and the cost is stupidly low, we run 6 x 64GB RAM, 6TB HDDs Xeons and each of them (with the price increase) cost us like 40 euro/month, which is redoncolus (ridiculous). The only \"inconvenience\" is that we have to do the infra ourselves instead of having a button to click but wow, the cost savings alone are insane. A 4GB RAM/20GB dis", "context": "runs own infra", "use_case": "dedicated root servers", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 765173712, "item_id": 47823357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You get what you pay for with Hetzner and it is good value.", "excerpt": "I migrated from Google Cloud to Hetner beginning of March. I currently have about 9 vms running and I pay a around 130 euro per month. There are very little other fees and generous freemiums for things like networking and storage. I have 3 projects, one LB, a handful of storage buckets, and a private network in one of the projects. That 130 is for everything. Their 40% price increase kicked in shortly after I signed ", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "use_case": "cloud VMs hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 765976160, "item_id": 47873510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873510", "by": "_nhh", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Its everything 99% of the people need, good pricing.", "excerpt": "just take a look at hetzner cloud. Its everything 99% of the people need, good pricing. Convert that ux to terminal and you done", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}, {"id": 733128384, "item_id": 45820524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820524", "by": "skwee357", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s affordable and I \u201cmove fast\u201d.", "excerpt": "I never understood the appeal of AWS like cloud for non corporate. Sure, when you run a BigCo, you have all the money and people to throw at big cloud providers, obtaining pointless certificates, and configuring obscure IAM roles. But why small businesses like them, I can\u2019t I understand. I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s affordable and I \u201cmove fast\u201d. I don\u2019t need certificates to be able to manage the se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"}]}, {"text": " a simple, no-frills alternative to big-cloud complexity,", "cites": [{"id": 778625232, "item_id": 48664077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664077", "by": "esperent", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air.", "excerpt": "The reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal. Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I switched to real projects and realized how quickly the price ramped up, I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after s", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "DigitalOcean", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 765135936, "item_id": 47820996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820996", "by": "Frannky", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is so freeing to not have to deal with big tech's VMs and their cumbersome and soul-sucking steps and documentation.", "excerpt": "I have been using hetzer for a few years now. I realized I just need a Linux VM and snapshots. It is so freeing to not have to deal with big tech's VMs and their cumbersome and soul-sucking steps and documentation.", "context": "", "use_case": "Linux VMs and snapshots", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 737502368, "item_id": 46093898, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093898", "by": "aristofun", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Because others are overpriced or overengineered.", "excerpt": "Hetzner Because others are overpriced or overengineered. Often both (looking at you, aws, gcs, azure).", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"}, {"id": 733128384, "item_id": 45820524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820524", "by": "skwee357", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s affordable and I \u201cmove fast\u201d.", "excerpt": "I never understood the appeal of AWS like cloud for non corporate. Sure, when you run a BigCo, you have all the money and people to throw at big cloud providers, obtaining pointless certificates, and configuring obscure IAM roles. But why small businesses like them, I can\u2019t I understand. I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s affordable and I \u201cmove fast\u201d. I don\u2019t need certificates to be able to manage the se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"}]}, {"text": " and being an EU-based provider.", "cites": [{"id": 802301264, "item_id": 50143829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143829", "by": "rwyinuse", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options.", "excerpt": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options. I migrated to them after geopolitical risks with US providers got too high. No problems so far.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 792040064, "item_id": 49502504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502504", "by": "dannyboland", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based", "excerpt": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based and one of the best benefits of AI is that running a pet server is no longer a real burden.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 772342336, "item_id": 48271396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "by": "BrunoBernardino", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years", "excerpt": "As someone who tries to \"buy local\", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn\u2019t seem to be listed there.", "context": "tries to buy local", "use_case": "cloud, box, object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is recent price increases,", "cites": [{"id": 776690528, "item_id": 48543158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543158", "by": "benjiro29", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It seems to be that Hetzer is trying to use the memory price issues, as a excuse.", "excerpt": "These prices have absolute nothing to do anymore with memory prices. Do not forget that Hetzner already increased the setup fees by a factor of 4x before to compensate for the price. And also servers getting price increases. It seems they have shifted by reducing the setup fees, and increasing the monthly costs. As this generates more revenue. And its easy to prove this... AX42 ... Its 8700GE that has gone from 65 Eu", "context": "Used Hetzner for 20 years", "use_case": "dedicated server hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 792084993, "item_id": 49505312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505312", "by": "scorpioxy", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate.", "excerpt": "A suitably specc'ed VPS from any provider with a good enough reputation. You can start small and upgrade if/when needed. I used to be a fan of Linode, also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate. Any provider that's been around for a while will probably have similar services.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting for side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 765173712, "item_id": 47823357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You get what you pay for with Hetzner and it is good value.", "excerpt": "I migrated from Google Cloud to Hetner beginning of March. I currently have about 9 vms running and I pay a around 130 euro per month. There are very little other fees and generous freemiums for things like networking and storage. I have 3 projects, one LB, a handful of storage buckets, and a private network in one of the projects. That 130 is for everything. Their 40% price increase kicked in shortly after I signed ", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "use_case": "cloud VMs hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}]}, {"text": " with further warnings about doing your own infrastructure work and an account shutdown over a billing dispute.", "cites": [{"id": 778662640, "item_id": 48666415, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666415", "by": "oscarcp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the cost savings alone are insane", "excerpt": "I don't know your use case... we use only dedicated root servers (from the auction) and the cost is stupidly low, we run 6 x 64GB RAM, 6TB HDDs Xeons and each of them (with the price increase) cost us like 40 euro/month, which is redoncolus (ridiculous). The only \"inconvenience\" is that we have to do the infra ourselves instead of having a button to click but wow, the cost savings alone are insane. A 4GB RAM/20GB dis", "context": "runs own infra", "use_case": "dedicated root servers", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 765167808, "item_id": 47822988, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822988", "by": "sho", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use and love Hetzner as well. But you have to go into it eyes open.", "excerpt": "I use and love Hetzner as well. But you have to go into it eyes open. Concrete example - a month ago I was notified that network infra my systems ran over was going down for maintenance. Public link: https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ff8335b8-6fda-4370-8431-ae50022573fe So, for me that was a production DB, fairly low usage but still. In the end I judged that it was going to take so much time to work around the outa", "context": "uses Hetzner for personal stuff, AWS for others' businesses", "use_case": "hosting production DB", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 765098352, "item_id": 47818647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818647", "by": "Ken_At_EM", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute.", "excerpt": "Yeah, well be careful of Hetzner, I used to love them but I just migrated away. They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute. (~30 VMs we were using for our CI/CD pipeline) We provided them evidence with records of the payment in totality from our bank, they refused to look at it / discuss the dispute, even when we were communicating urgently and just ultimately shut off all our access. We're on Scale", "context": "ran ~30 VMs for CI/CD", "use_case": "CI/CD VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Price and value", "summary": "Commenters repeatedly call it affordable and good value compared with AWS, GCP and DigitalOcean.", "quotes": [{"id": 778662640, "item_id": 48666415, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666415", "by": "oscarcp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the cost savings alone are insane", "excerpt": "I don't know your use case... we use only dedicated root servers (from the auction) and the cost is stupidly low, we run 6 x 64GB RAM, 6TB HDDs Xeons and each of them (with the price increase) cost us like 40 euro/month, which is redoncolus (ridiculous). The only \"inconvenience\" is that we have to do the infra ourselves instead of having a button to click but wow, the cost savings alone are insane. A 4GB RAM/20GB dis", "context": "runs own infra", "use_case": "dedicated root servers", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 765173712, "item_id": 47823357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You get what you pay for with Hetzner and it is good value.", "excerpt": "I migrated from Google Cloud to Hetner beginning of March. I currently have about 9 vms running and I pay a around 130 euro per month. There are very little other fees and generous freemiums for things like networking and storage. I have 3 projects, one LB, a handful of storage buckets, and a private network in one of the projects. That 130 is for everything. Their 40% price increase kicked in shortly after I signed ", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "use_case": "cloud VMs hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 765976160, "item_id": 47873510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873510", "by": "_nhh", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Its everything 99% of the people need, good pricing.", "excerpt": "just take a look at hetzner cloud. Its everything 99% of the people need, good pricing. Convert that ux to terminal and you done", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}]}, {"label": "Simplicity", "summary": "Users like the simple interface and not having to deal with big-cloud complexity.", "quotes": [{"id": 778625232, "item_id": 48664077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664077", "by": "esperent", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air.", "excerpt": "The reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal. Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I switched to real projects and realized how quickly the price ramped up, I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after s", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "DigitalOcean", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 765135936, "item_id": 47820996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820996", "by": "Frannky", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is so freeing to not have to deal with big tech's VMs and their cumbersome and soul-sucking steps and documentation.", "excerpt": "I have been using hetzer for a few years now. I realized I just need a Linux VM and snapshots. It is so freeing to not have to deal with big tech's VMs and their cumbersome and soul-sucking steps and documentation.", "context": "", "use_case": "Linux VMs and snapshots", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 737502368, "item_id": 46093898, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093898", "by": "aristofun", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Because others are overpriced or overengineered.", "excerpt": "Hetzner Because others are overpriced or overengineered. Often both (looking at you, aws, gcs, azure).", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"}]}, {"label": "EU-based", "summary": "Several pick it as a European option to reduce dependence on US providers.", "quotes": [{"id": 802301264, "item_id": 50143829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143829", "by": "rwyinuse", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options.", "excerpt": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options. I migrated to them after geopolitical risks with US providers got too high. No problems so far.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 792040064, "item_id": 49502504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502504", "by": "dannyboland", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based", "excerpt": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based and one of the best benefits of AI is that running a pet server is no longer a real burden.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 772342336, "item_id": 48271396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "by": "BrunoBernardino", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years", "excerpt": "As someone who tries to \"buy local\", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn\u2019t seem to be listed there.", "context": "tries to buy local", "use_case": "cloud, box, object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}]}, {"label": "Reliability", "summary": "Some describe it as reliable, with a good reputation and no problems so far.", "quotes": [{"id": 742374561, "item_id": 46398410, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398410", "by": "FunShot", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "because it's cheap and reliable", "excerpt": "Hello HN! I built DockBridge to solve a frustration I've had for years: Docker on macOS is heavy, but cloud dev servers are expensive (and annoying to manage). The Problem If you're on a Mac (especially Apple Silicon) or Windows: 1. Local Docker: Drains battery, spins fans, uses 10s of GBs of disk, and cross-arch builds (amd64) are painfully slow via emulation. 2. Remote Docker: You buy a VPS ($20-50/mo), set up SSH/", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud servers for DockBridge", "switched_from": "", "story": "DockBridge \u2013 Run Docker on cheap cloud servers, pay only when you use it"}, {"id": 749227744, "item_id": 46826734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826734", "by": "mcb_software", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history", "excerpt": "Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history, but nothing like Serverless Runtime.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 802301264, "item_id": 50143829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143829", "by": "rwyinuse", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options.", "excerpt": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options. I migrated to them after geopolitical risks with US providers got too high. No problems so far.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}]}, {"label": "Helpful support", "summary": "One user found support helpful when requesting more server quota.", "quotes": [{"id": 765173712, "item_id": 47823357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You get what you pay for with Hetzner and it is good value.", "excerpt": "I migrated from Google Cloud to Hetner beginning of March. I currently have about 9 vms running and I pay a around 130 euro per month. There are very little other fees and generous freemiums for things like networking and storage. I have 3 projects, one LB, a handful of storage buckets, and a private network in one of the projects. That 130 is for everything. Their 40% price increase kicked in shortly after I signed ", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "use_case": "cloud VMs hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Price increases", "summary": "Commenters note recent price hikes, and one long-time user argues they go beyond memory-cost changes.", "quotes": [{"id": 776690528, "item_id": 48543158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543158", "by": "benjiro29", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It seems to be that Hetzer is trying to use the memory price issues, as a excuse.", "excerpt": "These prices have absolute nothing to do anymore with memory prices. Do not forget that Hetzner already increased the setup fees by a factor of 4x before to compensate for the price. And also servers getting price increases. It seems they have shifted by reducing the setup fees, and increasing the monthly costs. As this generates more revenue. And its easy to prove this... AX42 ... Its 8700GE that has gone from 65 Eu", "context": "Used Hetzner for 20 years", "use_case": "dedicated server hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 792084993, "item_id": 49505312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505312", "by": "scorpioxy", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate.", "excerpt": "A suitably specc'ed VPS from any provider with a good enough reputation. You can start small and upgrade if/when needed. I used to be a fan of Linode, also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate. Any provider that's been around for a while will probably have similar services.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting for side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 765173712, "item_id": 47823357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You get what you pay for with Hetzner and it is good value.", "excerpt": "I migrated from Google Cloud to Hetner beginning of March. I currently have about 9 vms running and I pay a around 130 euro per month. There are very little other fees and generous freemiums for things like networking and storage. I have 3 projects, one LB, a handful of storage buckets, and a private network in one of the projects. That 130 is for everything. Their 40% price increase kicked in shortly after I signed ", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "use_case": "cloud VMs hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}]}, {"label": "DIY operations", "summary": "You manage infrastructure yourself, and planned network maintenance can force downtime.", "quotes": [{"id": 778662640, "item_id": 48666415, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666415", "by": "oscarcp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the cost savings alone are insane", "excerpt": "I don't know your use case... we use only dedicated root servers (from the auction) and the cost is stupidly low, we run 6 x 64GB RAM, 6TB HDDs Xeons and each of them (with the price increase) cost us like 40 euro/month, which is redoncolus (ridiculous). The only \"inconvenience\" is that we have to do the infra ourselves instead of having a button to click but wow, the cost savings alone are insane. A 4GB RAM/20GB dis", "context": "runs own infra", "use_case": "dedicated root servers", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 765167808, "item_id": 47822988, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822988", "by": "sho", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use and love Hetzner as well. But you have to go into it eyes open.", "excerpt": "I use and love Hetzner as well. But you have to go into it eyes open. Concrete example - a month ago I was notified that network infra my systems ran over was going down for maintenance. Public link: https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ff8335b8-6fda-4370-8431-ae50022573fe So, for me that was a production DB, fairly low usage but still. In the end I judged that it was going to take so much time to work around the outa", "context": "uses Hetzner for personal stuff, AWS for others' businesses", "use_case": "hosting production DB", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 749227744, "item_id": 46826734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826734", "by": "mcb_software", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history", "excerpt": "Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history, but nothing like Serverless Runtime.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}]}, {"label": "Account shutdowns", "summary": "One team had all its VMs shut off over a $36 billing dispute, and another user worries about machines being deleted.", "quotes": [{"id": 765098352, "item_id": 47818647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818647", "by": "Ken_At_EM", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute.", "excerpt": "Yeah, well be careful of Hetzner, I used to love them but I just migrated away. They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute. (~30 VMs we were using for our CI/CD pipeline) We provided them evidence with records of the payment in totality from our bank, they refused to look at it / discuss the dispute, even when we were communicating urgently and just ultimately shut off all our access. We're on Scale", "context": "ran ~30 VMs for CI/CD", "use_case": "CI/CD VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 766018561, "item_id": 47876160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876160", "by": "schpet", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i use hetzner too in the same way for a bit of redundancy", "excerpt": "as an exe customer i'm really happy to see this. i don't even use half of their features (such as the https proxy, or the LLM agent) but it's just a reliable computer that i can ssh into from my laptop or phone. i use hetzner too in the same way for a bit of redundancy but exe seems less likely to delete all my machines and data. every time i've had an issue or question, it's been the same sympathetic people helping ", "context": "", "use_case": "redundant remote machines", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}]}, {"label": "Limited regions", "summary": "It has no data centers in Asia, Africa or Latin America.", "quotes": [{"id": 776716018, "item_id": 48544751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544751", "by": "kamma4434", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "excerpt": "We use Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for global coverage. Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues, some are OK. Their forte is that they offer a lot of DCs. We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother. Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "context": "", "use_case": "core hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}]}, {"label": "IPv6 support", "summary": "Servers get only a /64 by default, and virtual networks are IPv4-only.", "quotes": [{"id": 735531280, "item_id": 45970705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970705", "by": "yrro", "date": "2025-11-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Hetzner. That said their IPv6 support is poor.", "excerpt": "I love Hetzner. That said their IPv6 support is poor. A server gets a /64 only, if you want a /56 (allowing 256 container networks) then you have to pay \u20ac15. As for virtual networks: they only support IPv4! At least they're not as bad as Azure... :)", "context": "", "use_case": "server hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"}]}], "who": [{"by": "LucaSiviero", "context": "Italian solo-founder", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817072", "date": "2026-07-07"}, {"by": "oscarcp", "context": "runs own infra", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666415", "date": "2026-06-24"}, {"by": "BrunoBernardino", "context": "tries to buy local", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "date": "2026-05-25"}, {"by": "jillesvangurp", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "date": "2026-04-19"}, {"by": "sho", "context": "uses Hetzner for personal stuff, AWS for others' businesses", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822988", "date": "2026-04-19"}, {"by": "Daegalus", "context": "self-hosts a lot, does infra as day job", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "date": "2026-02-20"}], "tags": ["for solo devs", "for small businesses", "EU data hosting", "for small websites", "for self-hosters"], "use_cases": ["hosting", "vps hosting", "european hosting", "cloud hosting", "vps hosting for side projects", "hosting side projects"], "compared": [{"slug": "aws", "name": "AWS", "co": 6, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "digitalocean", "name": "DigitalOcean", "co": 5, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-cloud", "name": "Google Cloud", "co": 3, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "ovh", "name": "OVH", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "scaleway", "name": "Scaleway", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "cloudflare", "name": "Cloudflare", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "bunny-net", "name": "Bunny.net", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 765063554, "item_id": 47816472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816472", "by": "adamcharnock", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We also find bare metal to be a lot more performant in general. Compared to AWS we typically see service response times halve.", "excerpt": "This is something we've[0] done a number of times for customers coming from various cloud providers. In our case we move customers onto a multi-server (sometimes multi-AZ) deployment in Hetzner, using Kubernetes to distribute workloads across servers and provide HA. Kubernetes is likely a lot for a single node deployment such as the OP, but it makes a lot more sense as soon as multiple nodes are involved. For backups", "context": "migrates customers from cloud providers", "use_case": "bare metal hosting", "switched_from": "AWS", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774", "title": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502354", "title": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657030", "title": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542064", "title": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324", "title": "I Am Building a Cloud", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080968", "title": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 4}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 4, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 802301264, "item_id": 50143829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143829", "by": "rwyinuse", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options.", "excerpt": "Hetzner, OVHcloud are decent European options. I migrated to them after geopolitical risks with US providers got too high. No problems so far.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 793728658, "item_id": 49608041, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608041", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We migrated most of our gcloud stuff to Hetzner beginning of the year.", "excerpt": "It's seriously good value for small websites. Basically, there is no cost aside from the domain. And for registering and managing domains, they are pretty much the most affordable option as well. And they have a few other things that aren't half bad to use with pretty generous freemium layers. We used Google's CDN for the last six years or so but it's pretty annoying to deal with and you have to pay for a load balanc", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"}, {"id": 792084993, "item_id": 49505312, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505312", "by": "scorpioxy", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate.", "excerpt": "A suitably specc'ed VPS from any provider with a good enough reputation. You can start small and upgrade if/when needed. I used to be a fan of Linode, also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate. Any provider that's been around for a while will probably have similar services.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting for side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 792040064, "item_id": 49502504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502504", "by": "dannyboland", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based", "excerpt": "I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based and one of the best benefits of AI is that running a pet server is no longer a real burden.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?"}, {"id": 781073152, "item_id": 48817072, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817072", "by": "LucaSiviero", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm a big fan of Hetzner, which has great prices, a great managed environment", "excerpt": "As an Italian solo-founder, I have to admit that the US vendor dependency is really strong, but when you look at what you need to build a serious product, what can you actually use from European vendors that is even close to US products? Take Stripe as an example: is there a real alternative that covers what they do? Not to talk about Cloud and Edge Computing vendors: GCP, AWS, Cloudflare... does anyone even get clos", "context": "Italian solo-founder", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 778662640, "item_id": 48666415, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666415", "by": "oscarcp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the cost savings alone are insane", "excerpt": "I don't know your use case... we use only dedicated root servers (from the auction) and the cost is stupidly low, we run 6 x 64GB RAM, 6TB HDDs Xeons and each of them (with the price increase) cost us like 40 euro/month, which is redoncolus (ridiculous). The only \"inconvenience\" is that we have to do the infra ourselves instead of having a button to click but wow, the cost savings alone are insane. A 4GB RAM/20GB dis", "context": "runs own infra", "use_case": "dedicated root servers", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 778625232, "item_id": 48664077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664077", "by": "esperent", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air.", "excerpt": "The reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal. Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I switched to real projects and realized how quickly the price ramped up, I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after s", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "DigitalOcean", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 776716018, "item_id": 48544751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544751", "by": "kamma4434", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "excerpt": "We use Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for global coverage. Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues, some are OK. Their forte is that they offer a lot of DCs. We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother. Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "context": "", "use_case": "core hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 776690528, "item_id": 48543158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543158", "by": "benjiro29", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It seems to be that Hetzer is trying to use the memory price issues, as a excuse.", "excerpt": "These prices have absolute nothing to do anymore with memory prices. Do not forget that Hetzner already increased the setup fees by a factor of 4x before to compensate for the price. And also servers getting price increases. It seems they have shifted by reducing the setup fees, and increasing the monthly costs. As this generates more revenue. And its easy to prove this... AX42 ... Its 8700GE that has gone from 65 Eu", "context": "Used Hetzner for 20 years", "use_case": "dedicated server hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 772342336, "item_id": 48271396, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271396", "by": "BrunoBernardino", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years", "excerpt": "As someone who tries to \"buy local\", I have been a happy customer of the following recommended services for many months or years: - Hetzner (Cloud, Box, and Object Storage) - Brevo (for transactional emails) - Mollie For monitoring I use and recommend UpDown.io, which doesn\u2019t seem to be listed there.", "context": "tries to buy local", "use_case": "cloud, box, object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 766018561, "item_id": 47876160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876160", "by": "schpet", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "i use hetzner too in the same way for a bit of redundancy", "excerpt": "as an exe customer i'm really happy to see this. i don't even use half of their features (such as the https proxy, or the LLM agent) but it's just a reliable computer that i can ssh into from my laptop or phone. i use hetzner too in the same way for a bit of redundancy but exe seems less likely to delete all my machines and data. every time i've had an issue or question, it's been the same sympathetic people helping ", "context": "", "use_case": "redundant remote machines", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}, {"id": 765976160, "item_id": 47873510, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873510", "by": "_nhh", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Its everything 99% of the people need, good pricing.", "excerpt": "just take a look at hetzner cloud. Its everything 99% of the people need, good pricing. Convert that ux to terminal and you done", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}, {"id": 765173712, "item_id": 47823357, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823357", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You get what you pay for with Hetzner and it is good value.", "excerpt": "I migrated from Google Cloud to Hetner beginning of March. I currently have about 9 vms running and I pay a around 130 euro per month. There are very little other fees and generous freemiums for things like networking and storage. I have 3 projects, one LB, a handful of storage buckets, and a private network in one of the projects. That 130 is for everything. Their 40% price increase kicked in shortly after I signed ", "context": "runs about 9 VMs across 3 projects", "use_case": "cloud VMs hosting", "switched_from": "Google Cloud", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 765167808, "item_id": 47822988, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822988", "by": "sho", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use and love Hetzner as well. But you have to go into it eyes open.", "excerpt": "I use and love Hetzner as well. But you have to go into it eyes open. Concrete example - a month ago I was notified that network infra my systems ran over was going down for maintenance. Public link: https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ff8335b8-6fda-4370-8431-ae50022573fe So, for me that was a production DB, fairly low usage but still. In the end I judged that it was going to take so much time to work around the outa", "context": "uses Hetzner for personal stuff, AWS for others' businesses", "use_case": "hosting production DB", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 765135936, "item_id": 47820996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820996", "by": "Frannky", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is so freeing to not have to deal with big tech's VMs and their cumbersome and soul-sucking steps and documentation.", "excerpt": "I have been using hetzer for a few years now. I realized I just need a Linux VM and snapshots. It is so freeing to not have to deal with big tech's VMs and their cumbersome and soul-sucking steps and documentation.", "context": "", "use_case": "Linux VMs and snapshots", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 765098352, "item_id": 47818647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818647", "by": "Ken_At_EM", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute.", "excerpt": "Yeah, well be careful of Hetzner, I used to love them but I just migrated away. They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute. (~30 VMs we were using for our CI/CD pipeline) We provided them evidence with records of the payment in totality from our bank, they refused to look at it / discuss the dispute, even when we were communicating urgently and just ultimately shut off all our access. We're on Scale", "context": "ran ~30 VMs for CI/CD", "use_case": "CI/CD VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 753370592, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down.", "excerpt": "Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin ", "context": "self-hosts a lot, does infra as day job", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 749227744, "item_id": 46826734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826734", "by": "mcb_software", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history", "excerpt": "Hetzner has a very good reputation and a long history, but nothing like Serverless Runtime.", "context": "", "use_case": "European hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 743005072, "item_id": 46437817, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437817", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Honestly I still recommend hetzner tho", "excerpt": "The bytehosting deal is good too! Oh btw lowendbox has a forum called lowendtalk where hosting providers etc. talk as well and show deals etc. and I got part of the community (you need to register and be verified manually but it wasn't hard) Lowendbox is amazing. Glad we are talking about it as I recently joined it and the community's really supportive and honestly feels more so in the sharing spirit and I even talke", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "FediMeteo: A \u20ac4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"}, {"id": 742374561, "item_id": 46398410, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398410", "by": "FunShot", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "because it's cheap and reliable", "excerpt": "Hello HN! I built DockBridge to solve a frustration I've had for years: Docker on macOS is heavy, but cloud dev servers are expensive (and annoying to manage). The Problem If you're on a Mac (especially Apple Silicon) or Windows: 1. Local Docker: Drains battery, spins fans, uses 10s of GBs of disk, and cross-arch builds (amd64) are painfully slow via emulation. 2. Remote Docker: You buy a VPS ($20-50/mo), set up SSH/", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud servers for DockBridge", "switched_from": "", "story": "DockBridge \u2013 Run Docker on cheap cloud servers, pay only when you use it"}, {"id": 737502368, "item_id": 46093898, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093898", "by": "aristofun", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Because others are overpriced or overengineered.", "excerpt": "Hetzner Because others are overpriced or overengineered. Often both (looking at you, aws, gcs, azure).", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"}, {"id": 737309873, "item_id": 46081867, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081867", "by": "victorbjorklund", "date": "2025-11-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like BunnyCDN for CDN and Hetzner for VPS.", "excerpt": "Guess it does not count as cloud but I like BunnyCDN for CDN and Hetzner for VPS.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which cloud provider do you like best and why?"}, {"id": 735531280, "item_id": 45970705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970705", "by": "yrro", "date": "2025-11-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Hetzner. That said their IPv6 support is poor.", "excerpt": "I love Hetzner. That said their IPv6 support is poor. A server gets a /64 only, if you want a /56 (allowing 256 container networks) then you have to pay \u20ac15. As for virtual networks: they only support IPv4! At least they're not as bad as Azure... :)", "context": "", "use_case": "server hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"}, {"id": 733128384, "item_id": 45820524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820524", "by": "skwee357", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s affordable and I \u201cmove fast\u201d.", "excerpt": "I never understood the appeal of AWS like cloud for non corporate. Sure, when you run a BigCo, you have all the money and people to throw at big cloud providers, obtaining pointless certificates, and configuring obscure IAM roles. But why small businesses like them, I can\u2019t I understand. I host all my stuff on Hetzner. It\u2019s easy, it\u2019s affordable and I \u201cmove fast\u201d. I don\u2019t need certificates to be able to manage the se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"}]}