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Hetzner dedicated server

The most recommended of 3 dedicated server hosts

Cheap dedicated servers with strong specs and unmetered bandwidth, though critics cite recent steep price rises and disk failures.

Cheap dedicated servers with strong specs and unmetered bandwidth, though critics cite recent steep price rises and disk failures.

69 people gave an opinion

recommend it
41
criticize it
28
approval share
59%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 10 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: recommended
  2. December 2025: recommended
  3. January 2026: recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: not recommended
  12. October 2026: recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Owned for 2 years

Median of the 4 owners who said how long they have had it.

Each square is one year.

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 41 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
  • 1.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
  • Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.

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What people say about it

The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.

Why people recommend it

Each mark is one comment

  • Low cost for high performance

    “Right now from Hetzner you can get a dedicated server with 6c/12t Ryzen2 3600, 64GB RAM and 2x512GB Nvme SSD for €37/mo”

    Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”

    “You pay just about the same but you get a lot more performance for the same money.”

    Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Don't rent the cloud, own instead”

    “You get an incredible amount of power for a very reasonable price”

    Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars”
  • Unmetered bandwidth included

    “a Hetzner dedicated server has unlimited ingress and egress. It seems like it's the only provider that does.”

    Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all”

    “Still cheap compared to the performance + unmetered bandwidth”

    Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”
  • Trusted choice for self-hosting

    “I tend to mostly use dedicated servers from Hetzner for my own projects and for my client's projects.”

    Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers”

    “nothing will beat self-hosted on Hetzner dedicated servers, at a great price.”

    Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native”

    “I found hetzner boxes to be the best/most referred to option”

    Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?”
  • Servers ready within a day

    “They have plenty of dedicated servers available at the click of a button...”

    Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)”

    “you can usually get a dedicated server installed and ready tomorrow”

    Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]”

    “we're on hetzner/ovh boxes, so delivery time really isnt an issue”

    Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models”

What people warn about

Each mark is one comment

  • Recent steep price increases

    “making this price increase very questionable. No one has real reason to choose hetzner if it is not affordable”

    Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

    “now it's 99 EUR for the most basic/cheapest option.. up to 350 EUR for something modest like a 16 Core Ryzen”

    Comment from 13 Feb 2026 in “AWS Adds support for nested virtualization”

    “Hetzner increased the setup price on its dedicated servers. Some servers have gone from €39 to 269.”

    Comment from 2 Feb 2026 on Hacker News
  • Hardware failures with little redundancy

    “When some component in OP's dedicated server fails, they will find out what that extra DO money was going toward.”

    Comment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime”

    “They assumedly PXE-boot consumer grade UEFI hardware that is unlikely to have a dedicated management interface.”

    Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth”

    “You absolutely will not get that in Hetzner bare-metal. If your HD or other component dies, it dies.”

    Comment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime”

Other dedicated server hosts people recommend

The two most recommended other dedicated server hosts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

Hetzner dedicated server compared with 2 alternatives
ProductRecommendCriticizeApprovalMonthsOwnedBadge
Hetzner dedicated serverThis page412859%102 yrs4 owners—
OVH dedicated server17289%7—Approved
Hetzner Server Auction15479%6—Approved
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What people said

40 of the 75 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“They assumedly PXE-boot consumer grade UEFI hardware that is unlikely to have a dedicated management interface.”

CriticizesComment from 28 Oct 2026 in “Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth”

“a Hetzner dedicated server has unlimited ingress and egress. It seems like it's the only provider that does.”

RecommendsComment from 24 Jul 2026 in “What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all”

“a Herzner dedicated server costs $55 a month and offers more resources”

RecommendsComment from 13 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)”

“we're on hetzner/ovh boxes, so delivery time really isnt an issue”

RecommendsComment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models”

“They have plenty of dedicated servers available at the click of a button...”

RecommendsComment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)”

“so that's the same price as just a AX42-1 in the new pricing model which is insane”

CriticizesComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)”

“the enormous increases we now see at Hetzner (plus the increase before that one)”

CriticizesComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

“even with this hetzner price increase it's still 2-3x cheaper than scaleway”

RecommendsComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

“You bait people to build on top of you with the best prices, then rug pull”

CriticizesComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

“making this price increase very questionable. No one has real reason to choose hetzner if it is not affordable”

CriticizesComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

“Cheap pricing is nice, but not that useful when in practice you can't actually buy most of the time.”

MixedComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

“At that point, I was like I’m trying to save a few bucks a month and risk is not worth it.”

MixedComment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x”

“if we'd just had a single bare metal machine from hetzner we could have saved money _and_ reduced our iteration times”

RecommendsComment from 10 May 2026 in “I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left”

“I've gotten better deals in the past few months on the "regular" servers instead of auctions”

RecommendsComment from 28 Apr 2026 in “A Year of Hetzner Auction Data: Where Did All the Servers Go?”

“modern dedicated servers at hetzner have two power units, and come with a redundand ssd/hdd raid-1 config”

RecommendsComment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime”

“You absolutely will not get that in Hetzner bare-metal. If your HD or other component dies, it dies.”

CriticizesComment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime”

“When some component in OP's dedicated server fails, they will find out what that extra DO money was going toward.”

CriticizesComment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime”

“there is tradeoffs when going from virtual- to dedicated hardware”

MixedComment from 18 Apr 2026 in “Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime”

“just have dedicated hetzner machine”

RecommendsComment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare”

“I tend to mostly use dedicated servers from Hetzner for my own projects and for my client's projects.”

RecommendsComment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers”

“a $45 hetzner box would probably be at the top of all these charts, but it's a little more work to provision”

MixedComment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers”

“You can extract a lot of value from bare-metal servers from Hetzner but you need to put some effort initially to get them going.”

RecommendsComment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers”

“But show me where can you find it for less than 10 times the price?”

RecommendsComment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”

“entrusting your startup's operations to a 10 year old slow computer in Germany instead of using EKS would be an extremely short sighted move”

MixedComment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”

“Before today, we used to be able to order an AX162-R for €207 and add 128 GB of RAM for €46.”

CriticizesComment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”

“Still cheap compared to the performance + unmetered bandwidth”

RecommendsComment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”

“running on bare-metal @ Hetzner is insane value for money”

RecommendsComment from 20 Feb 2026 in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”

“Hetzner offers uniquely cheap dedicated hosting, even beating OVH.”

RecommendsComment from 13 Feb 2026 in “AWS Adds support for nested virtualization”

“now it's 99 EUR for the most basic/cheapest option.. up to 350 EUR for something modest like a 16 Core Ryzen”

CriticizesComment from 13 Feb 2026 in “AWS Adds support for nested virtualization”

“You pay just about the same but you get a lot more performance for the same money.”

RecommendsComment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Don't rent the cloud, own instead”

“Hetzner increased the setup price on its dedicated servers. Some servers have gone from €39 to 269.”

CriticizesComment from 2 Feb 2026 on Hacker News

“nothing will beat self-hosted on Hetzner dedicated servers, at a great price.”

RecommendsComment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native”

“I found hetzner boxes to be the best/most referred to option”

RecommendsComment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?”

“Right now from Hetzner you can get a dedicated server with 6c/12t Ryzen2 3600, 64GB RAM and 2x512GB Nvme SSD for €37/mo”

RecommendsComment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”

“It does things at the price that may save you time reworking your app”

RecommendsComment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Go ahead, self-host Postgres”

“Buy a cheap dedicated server with 64 gigs of RAM from Hetzner”

RecommendsComment from 16 Dec 2025 in “O'saasy License Agreement”

“with 2-3x performance per core and 90% less costs”

RecommendsComment from 2 Dec 2025 in “100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite”

“you can usually get a dedicated server installed and ready tomorrow”

RecommendsComment from 26 Nov 2025 in “AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]”

“we lost the whole RAID array in a rented Hetzner server to some hardware failure”

CriticizesComment from 14 Nov 2025 in “We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner”

“You get an incredible amount of power for a very reasonable price”

RecommendsComment from 4 Nov 2025 in “I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.