Hetzner Review
Hetzner was founded in 1997.
It is headquartered in Germany.
It offers Web, Dedicated and VPS hosting products.
- Finland
- Germany
- United States
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| Hetzner plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Hetzner instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Hetzner servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Hetzner trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Hetzner trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Hetzner VPS over the long term | Consistency |
Hetzner VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/unternehmen/ddos-schutz "DDoS protection will not cause costs or prices to increase and will be available to all customers. Our system will detect DDoS attacks at all times, and its ability to recognize them will continually improve. Once an attack is recognized, the dynamic DDoS protection tools will immediately go into action and will filter out the attack. Your traffic will usually not be affected by the DDoS protection system due to its dynamic method of mitigating attacks. " |
| Backups | No |
Available for a fee (20% of plan cost). |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 4 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 2 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
CPU, Disk throughput, DIsk IOPS, Network Traffic, Network PPS |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal | |
| Hidden CPU Model | Yes | |
| Affiliate Program | No | |
| IPv6 support | Yes | |
| Firewall | Yes | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Choice of local or network storage.
- Choice of dedicated CPU resources.
Hetzner Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Hetzner also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Hetzner VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26s | 25s | 30s | 3 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backups | 0.025€ |
20% of instance price. Backups are automatically scheduled. Up to 7 backups can be stored. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud |
Around €0.025 for CS instances. Prices vary depending on instance size. |
| Block | 0.048€ |
Billed hourly. SSD based.
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud |
10GB minimum |
| Snapshots | 0.012€ |
These are manual backups and can be created at any time.
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Hetzner for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 20 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
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0.001€/GB |
This provider offers the following promotion:
Sign up using the link and receive 20€ in cloud credits.
Value: 20€
Hetzner Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Standard Instance Type: CX |
Unbeatable value for money - optimized to scale. For individual applications, distributed systems, dynamic clusters or development environments. |
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| CX11 | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | 3.79€ ($4.13) |
| CX21 | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | 5.35€ ($5.83) |
| CX31 | 2 | 8.0GB | 80GB | 9.70€ ($10.57) |
| Family: Dedicated Instance Type: CCX |
Maximum performance with dedicated vCPUs. Ideal for CPU intensive applications like highly frequented web servers, video encoding, machine learning or research calculations. |
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| CCX11 | 2 | 8.0GB | 80GB | 21.85€ ($23.82) |
| CCX12 | 2 | 8.0GB | 80GB | 21.85€ ($23.82) |
| CCX21 | 4 | 16.0GB | 160GB | 38.40€ ($41.86) |
| Family: Standard Instance Type: CPX |
Unbeatable value for money - optimized to scale. For individual applications, distributed systems, dynamic clusters or development environments. |
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| CPX21 | 3 | 4.0GB | 80GB | 7.55€ ($8.23) |
| CPX31 | 4 | 8.0GB | 160GB | 13.60€ ($14.82) |
| Family: Standard Instance Type: CAX |
Shared vCPUs running on Ampere® Altra® processors. Up to 16 vCPUs, 32 GB of ECC RAM and 320 GB of NVMe SSD-based storage. |
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| CAX11 | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | 3.79€ ($4.13) |