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Hetzner
Honest European hardware at honest prices — the best raw performance-per-euro in dedicated and cloud
Choose Hetzner if performance-per-euro is your primary criterion and you're comfortable managing your own infrastructure. Skip it if you need global datacenter coverage or managed services.
Hetzner doesn't oversell its infrastructure. The company operates large-scale physical data centers in Germany and Finland, runs them efficiently, and passes that efficiency to customers as compute pricing that most cloud providers cannot match at equivalent specs. The product is the hardware. The pricing is the argument. Everything above the OS is the customer's responsibility. Outside Europe, Hetzner effectively doesn't exist. And inside Europe, if something breaks at the stack level, the resolution is entirely yours.
At a glance
Right fit if
- Technical teams who want dedicated CPU compute at cloud prices — Hetzner's CCX line provides competition-free CPU allocation at pricing below comparable tiers from major cloud providers
- European-based applications where low latency to EU users and data residency in Germany or Finland matter
- Budget-conscious teams who need more performance than shared CPU plans provide without paying for premium cloud infrastructure
Not the right fit if
- Teams who need global datacenter coverage — Hetzner operates in Germany and Finland, with limited presence outside Europe
- Users who need managed services comparable to DigitalOcean, AWS, or GCP — Hetzner is infrastructure, not platform
- Teams who require phone support or synchronous escalation — support is ticket-based for most issues
Score breakdown
Scale reflects category fit and operational confidence — not absolute product quality.
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When it breaks
- Two datacenter regions (Germany, Finland) means geographic coverage is limited. Users who need infrastructure outside Europe need a different provider.
- Support is ticket-based. Technical depth for infrastructure issues is solid, but the async-only model creates delays for urgent resolution.
- IPv4 address availability has tightened — Hetzner charges per IPv4 address, and this cost compounds quickly for deployments that need many public IPs.
Hidden trade-offs
- IPv4 address costs accumulate for multi-IP deployments. IPv6 is free; IPv4 is the billable resource that compounds.
- Hetzner's bandwidth pricing includes a generous monthly allocation before overage charges apply. High-volume traffic should be modeled in total cost.
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