What is Hetzner?
Hetzner Cloud servers are virtual machines managed through Hetzner Console; they can be paired with features such as firewalls and block volumes. Separate dedicated-server products provide bare-metal hardware managed through Robot. Storage Box is a distinct network-storage product often used for backups or file transfer. These offerings differ in control plane, operational responsibility, and location choices.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: Cloud server overview, bare-metal guide, and Storage Box overview.
Key capabilities
- Cloud servers: virtual machines with optional firewalls and volumes.
- Dedicated servers: hardware access through the Robot management interface.
- Storage Box: network storage reached through supported protocols.
Plan OS patching, monitoring, backups, restore tests, network controls, and application deployment. The provider's infrastructure services do not remove the customer's system-administration responsibilities.
Choose Hetzner for infrastructure you intend to administer, with a clear decision between VMs and dedicated hardware. Compare current regions, IP options, support terms, storage architecture, and full workload costs. A low headline server price is not the same as a costed production system.
Hetzner offers concrete infrastructure choices without requiring all workloads to use a managed application platform. Its VM, bare-metal, and storage documentation was checked 27 September 2026. Price-to-performance, traffic, and residency claims were left to a current quote and location check.
Technical details
- Access
- Web platform
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 1997
- Headquarters
- Gunzenhausen, Germany
- Pricing model
- Paid
- API
- Available
- Website
- www.hetzner.com ↗
Official resources
What to verify for your environment
Profile audiences: Developers, DevOps Engineers, System Administrators, Startups, IT Teams.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
- Validate deployment, data location, access control, backup and recovery requirements.
- Test integrations, export paths and a representative operational workflow before committing.
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Reviews of Hetzner
Best price/performance ratio in Europe5/5 starsWe have been running our entire production infrastructure on Hetzner for 3 years. The dedicated servers are incredibly reliable, support is responsive, and the price-to-performance is unmatched in the EU market. Hetzner Cloud is also excellent for Kubernetes clusters.
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