# Hetzner Cloud

99 Hacker News commenters recommended Hetzner Cloud and 28 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 3 years (8 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Cheap, simple European cloud VMs with strong performance per euro and generous included bandwidth, though recent steep price increases have pushed some users to consider leaving.

## Why people recommend it

- Much cheaper than big clouds (13 comments): "Most optimistic Hetzner bill: 19.49 euro (including storage, yes, without backup, including network traffic)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850970)) "For most indie devs the EU infra is genuinely better value than US providers at the same price point." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488704)) "in terms of price and just having a vps that works european clouds are better than the american ones" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876632))
- Strong performance for the price (5 comments): "the effect this had on my CPU/network traffic on a 5/EUR month VPS over at Hetzner was in the single digit percentages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073715)) "Hetzner has best performance for the price. But also Hetzner just bumped prices like 30%" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293627)) "a $5 hetzner or digitalocean box with dokku/docker-compose is basically a superpower" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784612))
- Generous included bandwidth (4 comments): "European Hetzner VPSes have at least 20 TB of bandwidth, and US ones have at least 1 TB." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685909)) "You can get a VM instance with 20 TB included INTERNET traffic at Hetzner for €4.15." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984644)) "For $3.5, Hetzner gives 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, and 10 TB of bandwidth." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827593))
- Simple to use (3 comments): "You will at least not need months of training and tough exams to be an expert in Hetzner Cloud. It is simple, but that's the point." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034533)) "I love their pricing and the simplicity, but they don't give the impression of being highly skilled." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130114)) "Hetzner Cloud is simple to use, but it's a distinguishing feature, not a bug." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343324))

## What people warn about

- Steep recent price increases (9 comments): "They used to be super stable and cheap but being a low cost provider they have no real buffer to absorb even minor hikes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996917)) "This price increases is making me think about switching all the workload that I have on Hetzner Cloud" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138550)) "Hetzner has best performance for the price. But also Hetzner just bumped prices like 30%" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293627))
- Limited services versus big clouds (2 comments): "Been using Hetzner Cloud for Kubernetes and generally like it, but it has its limitations." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897780)) "the service range and depth is simply not comparable to the 3 big clouds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660838))
- Outages and slow support (2 comments): "my Hetzner VM just had a 13 hour outage from yesterday evening to today morning" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019925)) "We triple the price from one day to another and don’t answer support tickets on weekends." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019954))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Hetzner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner.md): 415 recommend
- [DigitalOcean](https://hackerapproved.com/p/digitalocean.md): 133 recommend
- [exe.dev](https://hackerapproved.com/p/exe-dev.md): 115 recommend
- [OVH hosting](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh.md): 81 recommend
- [Amazon EC2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-ec2.md): 73 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Hetzner Cloud", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner-cloud/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).