Hetzner
German hosting company providing cloud virtual machines and dedicated servers from datacenter locations in Europe, the US and Singapore.
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- DE Falkenstein (fsn1); DE Nuremberg (nbg1); FI Helsinki (hel1); US Ashburn, VA (ash); US Hillsboro, OR (hil); SG Singapore (sin)
Who it suits.
Self-managed Linux servers in European and US locations, billed hourly with a monthly cap so a deleted server is only charged for the hours it ran.
Consider something else if…
You want managed deployment from Git, or a managed database service — Hetzner Cloud documents neither.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria Hetzner does not publish are not listed.
Pricing
Pricing model
Your server's bill will never exceed its monthly price cap. If you delete your cloud server before the end of the billing month, we will only bill you for the hourly rate.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- FAQ - Hetzner Docs ↗
“Your server's bill will never exceed its monthly price cap. If you delete your cloud server before the end of the billing month, we will only bill you for the hourly rate.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Egress over allowance
€1.00 per TB over the included traffic in Europe and the US; €7.40 per TB in Singapore. Billed in blocks of 100 MB, rounded up.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Cloud pricing data — hetzner.com ↗
“"HEL1": { "EUR": { "price": "42.99", "hourPrice": "0.068900", "setupPrice": 0, "traffic": { "0": 0, "20": "1.000000" } } }, "SIN": { "EUR": { "price": "53.99", "traffic": { "0": 0, "1": "7.400000" } } }”
Read 2026-09-05 · official pricing
When you exceed a cap
Billed automatically — traffic beyond the amount included with the server is billed in blocks of 100MB, rounded up; Hetzner emails at 75% and 100% of the included traffic but explicitly does not cap or stop usage
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- FAQ - Hetzner Docs ↗
“If you exceed the traffic included in your package, we will bill you for the over-usage in blocks of 100MB. If you only consume a fraction of 100MB, we will round up to the next full 100MB.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Limits
Sites or apps included
By default, up to 5 servers (and by default up to 8 dedicated resource servers); Hetzner states default limits can be increased on request
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Overview - Hetzner Docs ↗
“By default, up to 5 servers”
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File or inode limit
Up to 16 Volumes per server
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Overview - Hetzner Docs ↗
“Up to 16 Volumes per server”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Deployment
Docker deployment
Limited
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Docker CE - Hetzner Docs ↗
“This app contains a ready to use Docker installation.”
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Containers
Limited
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Docker CE - Hetzner Docs ↗
“This app contains a ready to use Docker installation. Docker is an open source project that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Infrastructure
Persistent processes
Supported
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Overview - Hetzner Docs ↗
“Cloud servers are virtual machines that run on physical servers”
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Persistent storage
Supported
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Volumes Overview - Hetzner Docs ↗
“Volumes are used to expand storage capacity. Our Volumes are based on the networked block storage model and every block of data is stored on three different physical servers at our Hetzner data centers.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Scales to zero
Not supported
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Billing FAQ — Hetzner Docs ↗
“We will bill you for each cloud server until you choose to delete them. Even if you aren't actively using your server, we will bill you for it. [...] If you are planning to switch off a server for an extended period of time, consider taking a Snapshot of the server and deleting it, then recreating it from the Snapshot at a later point.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Regions
DE Falkenstein (fsn1); DE Nuremberg (nbg1); FI Helsinki (hel1); US Ashburn, VA (ash); US Hillsboro, OR (hil); SG Singapore (sin)
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Locations - Hetzner Docs ↗
“DE Falkenstein fsn1 / US Ashburn, VA ash / US Hillsboro, OR hil / SG Singapore sin / DE Nuremberg nbg1 / FI Helsinki hel1”
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Data
Backup retention
Daily automatic backups with seven slots per server; the oldest is deleted when a new one is taken. Billed at 20% of the server's monthly price.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Backups/Snapshots — Hetzner Docs ↗
“Backups are copies of a server's disk that are created automatically on a daily basis. Each server has a total of seven Backup slots. You can therefore have up to seven Backups at the same time. Once this limit is reached, the oldest Backup will automatically be deleted as soon as a new Backup is created. [...] Note: Backups and Snapshots do not include any Volumes which are attached to your server.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs