Hetzner
German hosting provider founded in 1997: cloud VPS, dedicated servers, S3 object storage, load balancers, and private networks. ISO 27001 and C5 (BSI) certified.
About
Hetzner Online GmbH is a German hosting provider founded in 1997 in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria. One of Europe's largest datacenter operators, Hetzner is renowned for its exceptional price-to-performance ratio — often 10–12× cheaper than US hyperscalers for equivalent resources, with no surprise egress charges.
Infrastructure
Hetzner operates 6 sites worldwide:
| Site | Country |
|---|---|
| Falkenstein (FSN1) | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Nuremberg (NBG1) | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Helsinki (HEL1) | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Hillsboro, Oregon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ashburn, Virginia | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Singapore (SIN1) | 🇸🇬 Singapore (opened 2024) |
S3-compatible Object Storage is available exclusively at European sites (FSN1, NBG1, HEL1).
Services
- Compute: Cloud VMs (Cost Optimized, Regular Performance, General Purpose with dedicated vCPU), bare metal dedicated servers, colocation
- Object storage: S3-compatible Object Storage — up to 100 buckets × 100 TB each; server-side encryption, object locking, versioning, pre-signed URLs
- Block storage: volumes attached to VMs
- Managed databases: managed offering available (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Networking: private networks (VXLAN), built-in stateful firewalls (included), managed load balancers
- Web hosting: shared hosting plans
- Domains & SSL: domain name management and certificates
Certifications
| Certification | Status |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | ✅ Certified — Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki datacenters |
| C5 (German BSI) | ✅ Certified — cloud.hetzner.com |
| GDPR | ✅ Compliant — personal data hosted in the EU by default |
Key differentiators
- Transparent pricing with no surprise egress fees
- Hourly or monthly billing
- Native integrations: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python and Go SDKs
- One-Click Apps: Docker, WordPress, GitLab, Nextcloud, Grafana, WireGuard…
- 99.9% SLA with credits for breaches
Services Offered
Services are mapped to unified taxonomy categories for easy comparison across providers.
- Compute
- Object Storage
- Database
Geographic Coverage
Datacenter locations for data residency and latency considerations.
- Falkenstein
- Nuremberg
- Helsinki
- Hillsboro
- Ashburn
- Singapore