Hetzner server
Ranked 21 of 21 VPS hosts by recommenders
People recommend Hetzner servers for cheap, good-value hourly and monthly hosting, with plenty of capacity to scale. The recurring caveat is recent price increases, especially for US-based servers.
People recommend Hetzner servers for cheap, good-value hourly and monthly hosting, with plenty of capacity to scale. The recurring caveat is recent price increases, especially for US-based servers.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
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
Cheap servers from low monthly price
“Don't they know you can get Hetzner servers starting from $5/month?”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud” “Eight years if you use Hetzner servers!”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off” “using a cheap Hetzner server”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Incident with Actions” Good hourly pricing
“Hetzner servers, which offer good hourly pricing”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m” “One $100/month box does all of it.”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Large price rises for US servers
“There are large (x2, x3) price rises for US based servers”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)”
Other VPS hosts people recommend
The four most recommended other VPS 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.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | 415 | 212 | 66% | 13 | 5 yrs40 owners | — |
| DigitalOcean | 133 | 117 | 53% | 12 | 10 yrs15 owners | — |
| exe.dev | 115 | 56 | 67% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Hetzner Cloud | 99 | 28 | 78% | 12 | 3 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| Hetzner serverThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you have plenty more space to do more stuff and scale”
“using a cheap Hetzner server”
“the CI is rock solid and reliable”
“There are large (x2, x3) price rises for US based servers”
“One $100/month box does all of it.”
“An auction bought heztner server is serving me quite well”
“Hetzner servers, which offer good hourly pricing”
“A good business would send you a warning a month before your credit card expires, not after the fact.”
“Don't they know you can get Hetzner servers starting from $5/month?”
“Eight years if you use Hetzner servers!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.