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Hetzner

German infrastructure provider with low-cost, no-contract web hosting

Overview

Hetzner is a German hosting company best known for inexpensive dedicated and cloud servers. W3Techs credits it with 2.1% of all websites in November 2026.[1] Its web hosting runs in Hetzner’s own data centre park in Nuremberg, and the company describes the service as GDPR-compliant and powered by renewable energy.[13]

Hetzner’s shared web hosting is priced in euros and billed monthly with no minimum contract: Webhosting S costs €1.60 per month, M €4.12, L €8.32 and XL €16.72, excluding VAT.[13] Plans scale from 10 GB of storage and one database to 300 GB and 50 databases, with all tiers including unlimited mailboxes and Varnish caching, and L and XL adding Redis, SSH and Node.js. Domains are not included and cost from €4.90 per year.[13]

Hetzner’s pricing is unusual in the industry because there is no introductory discount followed by a higher renewal rate: the listed monthly price is the ongoing price. The trade-offs are a smaller set of convenience features (no bundled website builder or free domain), English-language support aimed at technically capable users, and hosting located only in Germany, which may not suit sites whose audience is mainly outside Europe.

Hetzner features

  • AMD (AX) and Intel (EX) lines
  • Storage (SX) and GPU servers
  • Server Auction refurbished machines
  • ISO 27001:2022 certified data centres
  • Hourly rate shown alongside monthly cap
  • x86 and Arm (Ampere) cloud servers
  • 20 TB traffic included in EU locations
  • Hourly billing capped at monthly price

Hetzner pricing

EUR, excluding VAT. AX41 from €59/month (no setup fee); AX42 from €79 (€49 setup); AX102 from €159 (€129 setup); EX44 from €59 (no setup); EX63 from €99 (€74 setup).

Hetzner strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Very low prices for current hardware
  • Transparent per-model setup fees
  • Refurbished auction servers
  • High resources per euro
  • Large traffic allowance
  • Arm instances available

Limitations

  • Unmanaged only
  • Setup fees on many models
  • Prices in euros plus VAT
  • Fewer managed services than larger clouds
  • Prices in euros; VAT added for EU customers
  • Plan availability differs by location

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