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Who is Hetzner Cloud best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is Hetzner Cloud best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
Sources linked — see verification below.
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Best use cases for Hetzner Cloud
- Teams prioritizing cost/performance on VM hosting
- Workloads with Europe-centric deployment needs
- Teams that don’t require deep hyperscaler ecosystems
- Standard web services and APIs where a simple VM model is sufficient
- Teams that can own lifecycle practices (patching, backups, observability)
Who should avoid Hetzner Cloud?
- You need broad global regions and enterprise managed services
- You need hyperscaler-level governance tooling
- Regional footprint may be narrower than hyperscalers
Upgrade triggers for Hetzner Cloud
- Need broader region coverage
- Need deeper managed services ecosystem
- Need enterprise governance and compliance features
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.