59 engineers on Hacker News describe using Hetzner first-hand: 25 endorse it, 9 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“At work we have several physical Hetzner servers in production. They seem to run fine, 10s of thousands of clients connected.”
endorse · production · usr1106 · 2026-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run quite a few Slicer instances on mini PCs and Ryzen builds - also on Hetzner (and yes ouch 120 EUR / mo up to ~ 550 EUR / mo”
mixed · production · alexellisuk · 2026-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to OVH and Hetzner and had no issues.”
endorse · production · LunaSea · 2026-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've moved to Hetzner several years ago, and the savings will ensure we'll likely never consider the Cloud again”
endorse · production · mythz · 2025-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've moved most of our Apps off AWS to Hetzner years ago by switching to SQLite/Litestream”
endorse · production · mythz · 2025-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've migrated 95% of everything off Hetzner and I'm hanging out for it to be 100%. And I warn others away from them at every opportunity.”
regret · production · justinclift · 2025-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run AX41-NVMe dedicated servers that cost us about EUR 64 per server with a 10G LAN”
endorse · production · physix · 2025-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using them for years and I've never had a problem with them”
endorse · personal · hnarn · 2024-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Hetzner for years though and never had an issue. But I don't get anywhere close to the 20TB traffic limit.”
endorse · personal · okasaki · 2024-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using Hetzner's dedicated servers to provide Kubernetes clusters to our clients for a few years now. The performance is certainly excellent”
endorse · production · 3 yr · adamcharnock · 2024-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run servers at ovh and hetzner for decades; no issues”
endorse · production · 20 yr · anonzzzies · 2024-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My go-to for this is hetzner but I'm super curious if there's anything west of the atlantic that compares”
endorse · personal · ellenhp · 2024-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to Hetzner (https://hetzner.com/) and threw Dokku on top. Significantly cheaper than Digital Ocean”
endorse · production · awsidiqi · 2024-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again with these discount hosts.”
regret · production · hipadev23 · 2024-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from Linode to Hetzner over a year ago for our website and backend, and have been running with zero downtime.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · wrapperup · 2023-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Hetzner first made it impossible for us to pay, then implied we were fraudulent for not paying”
regret · production · actionfromafar · 2023-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've migrated all workloads except main application servers to Hetzner. Having a managed DB service... would have us quitting AWS in an instant.”
mixed · production · karlerss · 2022-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've migrated all of our servers to Hetzner over the last year and couldn't be happier with the service”
endorse · production · 1 yr · a_square_peg · 2022-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a weird performance issues on Hetzner virtual machines where network bandwidth would drop to 50mbit/s like it was being throttled.”
regret · production · PaulKeeble · 2022-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Their service interface has improved a lot and is quite smooth and easy to use.”
endorse · personal · adventured · 2021-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run high-availability Ceph, Postgres, and Consul, across 3 Hetzner DCs, and have not had a Hetzner-induced service downtime in the 5 years”
endorse · production · 5 yr · nh2 · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Currently I use OVH and Hetzner and find it to be the best of both worlds.”
endorse · production · mgbmtl · 2021-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've run pretty much everything on Hetzer. DDoS has never been a problem”
endorse · production · thatwasunusual · 2021-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have not run into any limits... I had to Hetzner email support a few times and got a helpful reply within 1-2 work days”
endorse · personal · stfwn · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is why we migrated from Hetzner to Azure... Got bitten once by Hetzer downtime and never came back.”
regret · production · 0xcoffee · 2020-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd never again run anything business-critical on Hetzner metal. The cloud stuff I'm really happy though, higher uptimes”
mixed · production · wink · 2019-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Hetzner is great - we run a couple of Ethereum nodes on there and we've had zero issues with it for nearly a year.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · ohopton · 2018-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After using Hetzner for 7 years, I cancelled the service I take from them, along with other 11 company accounts”
regret · production · 7 yr · Timucin · 2018-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the other reason we switched to Hetzner is reliability. Sure we can continue training from the last checkpoint but we still lost half a day on average”
regret · production · paulsutter · 2017-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if one of your drives fails, they will swap it for… another failing drive. You will keep getting various refurbished or re-tested drives.”
regret · production · jwr · 2016-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a SaaS business there on ~25 servers with Hetzner. Besides small issues we are pretty happy.”
endorse · production · easychris · 2016-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A single dedicated machine at Hetzner gives 10x the headroom at a fraction of the cost.”
endorse · production · _urga · 2015-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Hetzner and have our systems spread throughout their datacenters... and have had absolutely no problems with ipv6.”
endorse · production · einhverfr · 2014-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved our hosting off Hetzner and on to Black Lotus for the ddos-protection.”
regret · production · metabrew · 2013-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're now on a Hetzner Ubuntu vServer which worked out to be 11x cheaper than a lower speced instance on Azure”
endorse · production · mythz · 2012-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated our infrastructure to Hetzner at the beginning of the year and we are very happy with the change.”
endorse · production · vanessar · 2012-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are very satisfied with dedicated systems from”
endorse · production · rmoriz · 2011-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Deployed on hetzner running on a cpu.”
neutral · production · Aerialoo · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Its been excellent for self hosting email on a small hetzner instance.”
neutral · personal · Depurator · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated most of our gcloud stuff to Hetzner beginning of the year.”
neutral · production · jillesvangurp · 2026-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used to have self-hosted runners on Hetzner dedicated servers, and we migrated to UbiCloud ~6 months ago.”
neutral · production · ashkulz · 2026-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was helping a small e-commerce shop moving from Hetzner bare metal to Hetzner Cloud.”
neutral · production · dominikz · 2026-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated to two bare metal servers at Hetzner.”
neutral · production · sam_lowry_ · 2025-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm hosting it on Hetzner VPS with storage on Wasabi, backups on Backblaze.”
neutral · personal · esperent · 2025-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as well as AWS, Hetzner etc accounts linked with that company.”
neutral · production · jlokier · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For learning and tinkering I spin up VMs in hetzner and delete them when I'm done.”
neutral · personal · efxhoy · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Hetzner as our underlying provider.”
neutral · production · ozgune · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our current marketing site is NextJS hosted on Hetzner fronted by Cloudflare, fortunately that's still up and never has any problems.”
neutral · production · madjam002 · 2023-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The whole thing runs on a Hetzner server, so while I do not log any PII, Hetzner logs at least the IP”
neutral · production · badlogic · 2023-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use it with Hetzner cloud and real Hetzner root server with good success.”
neutral · production · stephankoelle · 2022-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have also been using mailinabox for over an year on Hetzner.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · abdullahkhalids · 2022-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run them on dedicated hosts or on Hetzner cloud instances.”
neutral · production · sgtfrankieboy · 2022-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated around 20 services within a couple of days, coming from a mixture of all sorts of AWS services and Hetzner infra.”
neutral · production · tommaybe · 2022-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the choice was made to move from the original Finnish team's host of choice, Hetzner, to AWS.”
neutral · production · wzm · 2022-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“to self-manged Hetzner Cloud and save roughly 66%”
neutral · production · RamblingCTO · 2022-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a Hetzner server with 200GB storage (for 15 Euro per month), which is easy to scale up if we need more storage.”
neutral · personal · microtonal · 2019-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we use hetzner, which is not exactly a high-end provider but offers it”
neutral · production · vruiz · 2015-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We still have a server hosted at Hetzner (mentioned by the OP)”
neutral · production · prib · 2011-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?