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Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting personal projects", "switched_from": "Vultr", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 754192384, "item_id": 47137024, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137024", "by": "miohtama", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend OVH.", "excerpt": "For alternative European providers, I recommend OVH. Some euros pricier, but good.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 754212337, "item_id": 47138271, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138271", "by": "keraf", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "performance was significantly worse", "excerpt": "Used to have my VPS' with OVH a few years back but noticed the performance was significantly worse than similarly priced Hetzner ones. Not sure if that changed. Regarding alternative VPS providers, Infomaniak in Switzerland have decent prices on their Lite range [0]. I'll stick with Hetzner but if I move some day, I might try them out. 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As I write this, we're talking 20x higher carbon intensity compared to Franc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)"}, {"id": 769933952, "item_id": 48120872, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120872", "by": "louiskottmann", "date": "2026-05-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OVH now also keeps backups even for clients that don't pay for it.", "excerpt": "This is borderline adversarial propaganda. While the incident did happen, a lot of actions were taken and most of the data was recovered. OVH now also keeps backups even for clients that don't pay for it. I was hit by that datacenter catastrophe and got my data back almost immediately, in a new VM. I've been using them for years with little issue (no more than happened on my AWS or Azure accounts, I would say less be", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"}, {"id": 765166257, "item_id": 47822891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822891", "by": "altern8", "date": "2026-04-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "my monthly expense for hosting went from $500 to $100, for vastly superior servers.", "excerpt": "I used to like Vultr because it was a cheaper Digital Ocean, still with a great-looking UI (if not better). Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr. It doesn't make any sense. Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting personal projects", "switched_from": "Vultr", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 754228864, "item_id": 47139304, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139304", "by": "dewey", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "OVH doesn't have their equivalent of their auction servers", "excerpt": "I've been on OVH forever, but recently switched to Hetzner as OVH doesn't have their equivalent of their auction servers which are great if you are looking for combinations of SSD + HDD servers. These don't really exist at OVH unless you pay > 200 euro / month.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"}, {"id": 754212337, "item_id": 47138271, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138271", "by": "keraf", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "performance was significantly worse", "excerpt": "Used to have my VPS' with OVH a few years back but noticed the performance was significantly worse than similarly priced Hetzner ones. Not sure if that changed. Regarding alternative VPS providers, Infomaniak in Switzerland have decent prices on their Lite range [0]. I'll stick with Hetzner but if I move some day, I might try them out. [0] https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/vps-lite", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"}, {"id": 754192384, "item_id": 47137024, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137024", "by": "miohtama", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend OVH.", "excerpt": "For alternative European providers, I recommend OVH. Some euros pricier, but good.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"}, {"id": 753370593, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw", "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": "", "use_case": "experimenting with Openclaw", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 752462273, "item_id": 47028892, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028892", "by": "winrid", "date": "2026-02-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend a dedicated $40 hetzner or OVH box", "excerpt": "I recommend a dedicated $40 hetzner or OVH box and just keep all your projects on that. They're pretty powerful. I was spending a lot on a bunch of $5 linodes until recently and you have to keep them upgraded etc...", "context": "", "use_case": "Dedicated server hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Knock-Knock.net \u2013 Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door"}, {"id": 749906178, "item_id": 46869136, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869136", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-02-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have heard some great things about OVH", "excerpt": "Really prefer Hetzner in this sense because they actually talk about limits. I recently got myself a hetzner account (after shilling it for so much, hearing positivity, I felt like it was time for me to discover it) I wanted to try out the most cheapest option out of frugality & that was actually limited (but kudos to them that they mentioned that these servers have limits) so no worries I went and picked the 5.99 eu", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations"}, {"id": 748294547, "item_id": 46768409, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768409", "by": "sundache", "date": "2026-01-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OVH is more basic, but what it has tends to work at least.", "excerpt": "I use AWS and OVH at work and this has not my experience. AWS has more services, but a lot of those are of dubious quality. I'd love to never have to use redshift or EMR again for instance. OVH is more basic, but what it has tends to work at least.", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."}, {"id": 746853074, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "OVH provides unlimited egress as well and OVH is another good bet.", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "bandwidth-heavy hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}, {"id": 746464386, "item_id": 46654024, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654024", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I personally prefer OVH as well", "excerpt": "Scaleway is on a bit more expensive side of things Scaleway does have every primitive you might need but I don't know how good scaleway's support system is. I have tried Upcloud for free and they are more expensive but they offer unlimited bandwidth (and the cap after 24 TB of free bandwidth/month is at 100 mbps) Personally it depends on the solution, I have evaluated tons of servers and Scaleway's 0.10cents per mont", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"}, {"id": 745354980, "item_id": 46584686, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584686", "by": "tanin", "date": "2026-01-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's probably the most economical option for a waitlist system.", "excerpt": "I'm launching many landing pages these days and want to collect emails into waitlists. I have been working on Wait: https://github.com/tanin47/wait, a self-hostable CORS-enabled headless waitlist system that connects to Google Sheets. I have many landing pages hosted for free on Netlify and Github Pages as static pages. All of them have waitlist forms that send cross-domain AJAX requests to the Wait server, which the", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)"}, {"id": 741457408, "item_id": 46341088, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341088", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2025-12-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend OVH's cold storage because they cost only 2$ per month/TB storage long term", "excerpt": "I had created this comment on your other comment on one of my other comments that there are no cloud providers and so I am wishing to talk about both of these at the same comment perhaps I do not know about the others but OVH (even with all of its flaws) is definitely a cloud provider I got so damn overwhelmed looking at all the services offered by OVH once and I found some niche services which would most likely be u", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud and cold storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"}, {"id": 739175089, "item_id": 46198443, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198443", "by": "dismantlethesun", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the reliability and throughput of both of them isn't as consistent as AWS", "excerpt": "I'm not the OP, but I do have an annectote. We've got an backend pipeline that does image processing. At every step of the pipeline, it would make copies of small (less than 10MB) files from an S3 storage source, do a task, then copy the results back up to the storage source. Originally, it was using AWS but years ago it was decided that AWS was not cost effective so we turned to another partner OVH and Backblaze. Un", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"}, {"id": 734667361, "item_id": 45916710, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916710", "by": "ch2026", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "A few years back I launched an io game and used hetzner as my backend. an hour into launch day they null routed my account because their anti-abuse system thought my sudden surge in websocket connections was an attack (unclear if they thought it was inbound or outbound doing the attacking). I had paid for advertising on a few game curation sites plus youtubers and streamers. Lovely failure all thanks to Hetzner. Took", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "Hetzner", "story": "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"}]}