Hetzner reviews
ServerDiff Score
Very good
Hetzner scores 7.7 out of 10 (very good): 2.9★ average from 3,391 reviews on 4 sites · Runs its own data centres · Network in 16 cities · 11 countries.
No. 16 of 135 rated providers Reviews checked 10 Nov 2026
How the score is built
Fixed weights: half for what people say, half for what the provider runs on. A review part without enough data is left out and the other review parts share its weight.What people say
- Customer reviews 4.7 2.9★ average from 3,391 reviews
- Last 12 months — Not enough data yet
- Answers to complaints — Not read yet
- Forum posts 7.5 3 of 4 positive
- Expert reviews — Not enough data yet
What it runs on
- Own infrastructure 10.0 Runs its own data centres ↗
- Locations 9.6 Network in 16 cities · 11 countries
Customer reviews by site
- Trustpilot 2.9★ 3,029 7 Nov 2026
- HostAdvice 2.8★ 324 7 Nov 2026
- WHTop 2.2★ 331.0★ lately (1) 10 Nov 2026
- SmartCustomer 1.3★ 51.0★ lately (1) 10 Nov 2026
In forums
Posts by people describing their own experience on Hacker News, summarised in our words. 4 first-hand posts among 40 that name it- Positive
Several physical servers in production at work; they seem to run fine with tens of thousands of clients connected.
Hacker News · 1 Nov 2026 - Positive
Rented a server years ago and grew into it steadily, with no cost increases so far.
Hacker News · 31 Oct 2026 - Positive
Praised the cloud console interface as a dream to use.
Hacker News · 29 Oct 2026 - Mixed
Moved from DigitalOcean for being European and cheaper, but now the smaller virtual servers are constantly sold out.
Hacker News · 28 Oct 2026
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