Hetzner Cloud

Hetzner Cloud sells hourly virtual servers from the German hosting company Hetzner Online GmbH, with datacentres in Germany, Finland, the United States and Singapore. The product is deliberately narrow: cloud servers, volumes, private networks, firewalls, floating IPs, load balancers and snapshots, driven by a clean API, a CLI and a Terraform provider.

Its reputation rests on price. A given amount of vCPU and RAM typically costs a fraction of the equivalent at a US hyperscaler, and traffic is generously included rather than metered aggressively.

The trade-off is that almost nothing sits on top of the compute. There is no managed Kubernetes service, no managed database, no GPU instance type and no licensed Windows image, so a Windows estate or a team that wants managed building blocks has to look elsewhere or run them itself.

German hosting and cloud provider operating its own data centers in Europe.

Its products and services are generally evaluated on product reliability, security posture, pricing clarity, and long-term operational fit for teams and individuals. For buyers comparing vendors, Hetzner is usually considered alongside alternatives based on jurisdiction, infrastructure choices, support quality, and how well the platform integrates with existing workflows.