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Hetzner Cloud

Hosting & Infrastructure

Servers from EUR 5.49/mo excl. VAT and IPv4, billed hourly

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German cloud provider renting virtual servers by the hour from data centres in Germany, Finland, the US and Singapore

Hetzner rents virtual servers by the hour from data centres in Falkenstein and Nuremberg (Germany), Helsinki, two US locations and Singapore. You pick a size and an operating system such as Ubuntu or Debian, and the server is ready in seconds. You can run a self-hosting tool such as Coolify on top of it.

It suits founders who are comfortable running a Linux server. There are three lines: Cost-Optimized (shared CPUs, the cheapest), Regular Performance (shared AMD CPUs on newer hardware) and General Purpose (dedicated vCPUs).

Read the prices carefully. Hetzner’s June 2026 price list puts the CX23 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB disk) at EUR 5.49 a month and the CPX22 at EUR 19.49, both excluding VAT and the IPv4 address, and the Cost-Optimized line is currently shown as not available. Singapore servers cost more and include only 0.5 TB of traffic.

Pros

  • Servers in the EU include 20 TB of traffic a month
  • Hourly billing with a monthly cap: delete a server mid-month and you pay only for the hours used
  • Firewalls at no extra cost, private networks, a REST API, a CLI and Terraform support

Cons

  • The cheapest Cost-Optimized servers (from EUR 5.49/mo) are marked as not available on Hetzner's site
  • Prices rose on 15 June 2026: the 2 vCPU, 4 GB CPX22 went from EUR 7.99 to EUR 19.49 a month in Germany and Finland
  • Servers come unmanaged: you install, update and secure them yourself

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