Netcup VPS
Hacker ApprovedRanked 9 of 21 VPS hosts by recommenders
Cheap German VPS provider that people call solid and reliable for the price. Slow or unhelpful support and a painful payment setup draw the most complaints.
Cheap German VPS provider that people call solid and reliable for the price. Slow or unhelpful support and a painful payment setup draw the most complaints.
26 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 21
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 81%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 21 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 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
Low price for the specs
“I got a 'root server' with netcup and I'm now paying $11/mo for 4 cores/8gb/256gb nvm-e.”
Comment from 31 Mar 2026 in “DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding” “I got a 8 gig netcup server for 5$ and so I got it out of their limited deals section”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service” “On netcup I'm paying only 9€ for better specs.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Hetzner Price Adjustment (June 15th, 2026)” - Comment from 23 Mar 2026 in “Migrating to the EU”
- Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service”
- Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”
Reliable with few problems
“I am using Netcup over the course of 20 years now and tbh never had any problems. Their customer service is very friendly and they responded quickly to me every time.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure” “overall its really good and that sort of aligns with my experience with them too”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?” “either tier of offering has been wonderful”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?” - Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure”
Recommended European alternative hoster
“This is probably the best alternative provider for individuals that I could find”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%” “netcup another german hosting is really great too”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native” “any competent hoster, e.g. netcup”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500€/Year)” - Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Weak customer support
“It's OK until you get into support troubles.”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%” “Netcup's support is basically nonexistent”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%” “They are abysmal at customer service.”
Comment from 20 Feb 2026 in “I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure” Painful payment setup
“good personal experience with netcup vps but netcup's payments were really PITA to setup”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations” “Their payment processing was really painful that I had to go through”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise” Low spec with CPU steal
“If you are okay with some more steal factor”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers” “It's very low-spec, but it's enough.”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month” Limited control panel and API
“They are solid and cheaper, but they don't offer the same level of control plane and API access”
Comment from 23 Feb 2026 in “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%” “Netcup's control panels are stupid.”
Comment from 30 Jan 2026 in “Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?”
Other VPS hosts people recommend
The four most recommended other VPS hosts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | 415 | 212 | 66% | 13 | 5 yrs40 owners | — |
| DigitalOcean | 133 | 117 | 53% | 12 | 10 yrs15 owners | — |
| exe.dev | 115 | 56 | 67% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Hetzner Cloud | 99 | 28 | 78% | 12 | 3 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| Netcup VPSThis page | 21 | 5 | 81% | 8 | — | Approved |
What people said
37 of the 43 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's very low-spec, but it's enough.”
“Just get some x86 and ARM runners off netcup”
“My buying preferences have definitely shifted to "Buy not American" on digital things.”
“Buyvm and netcup are notable examples of price increase at the levels of 18-20% for most usecases”
“I also had a Netcup vps for 10$ for 3 months”
“On netcup I'm paying only 9€ for better specs.”
“They will put forth any reason to not have to delete your data.”
“I got a 'root server' with netcup and I'm now paying $11/mo for 4 cores/8gb/256gb nvm-e.”
“they offer quite a bit of value for the money”
“If you are okay with some more steal factor”
“these companies have decent human support and some/most provide decent SLA guarantees”
“Netcup and OVH provide free un-metered ports.”
“Netcup's support is basically nonexistent”
“This is probably the best alternative provider for individuals that I could find”
“It's OK until you get into support troubles.”
“They are solid and cheaper, but they don't offer the same level of control plane and API access”
“I know them as cheap and solid”
“I am using Netcup over the course of 20 years now and tbh never had any problems. Their customer service is very friendly and they responded quickly to me every time.”
“They are abysmal at customer service.”
“good personal experience with netcup vps but netcup's payments were really PITA to setup”
“netcup another german hosting is really great too”
“With SEPA payments there hasn't been need to log into customercontrolpanel for me.”
“Netcup's control panels are stupid.”
“I have a server there and I don't really observe too much”
“overall its really good and that sort of aligns with my experience with them too”
“I have a netcup server myself”
“netcup (my preferred provider)”
“Personally I am on netcup, I somehow looped it in such a way to get server of 8 gigs”
“I got a 8 gig netcup server for 5$ and so I got it out of their limited deals section”
“this was the best deal I ever saw”
“any competent hoster, e.g. netcup”
“Their payment processing was really painful that I had to go through”
“It worked great, and I had total control of everything.”
“Not counting the fact that Netcup is raided (also Netcup is limited to 8TB on a VPS).”
“Netcup is under-rated but there are also other providers too”
“either tier of offering has been wonderful”
“they automatically routed my IP through a DDoS scrubbing service”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.