Hetzner vs HosterSale: Which Is Better?

Hetzner is a German cloud and dedicated server provider founded in 1997. It runs its own data centers and is best known for low prices on physical and virtual servers, aimed at customers who are comfortable administering them.

From a German web host to six regions

Martin Hetzner founded the company in Gunzenhausen in 1997. By the company's own account, he started it after asking why web hosting in Germany was so expensive. Dedicated servers became a central part of the business, and Hetzner built its own data centers in Falkenstein and Nuremberg, later adding Helsinki — which gives it direct control over hardware, network, power and running costs. Hetzner Cloud followed, with virtual servers managed through a web console and an API, and cloud locations in the United States and Singapore came later still.

What Hetzner sells

• Cloud servers in four lines, named as Hetzner names them: CX and CAX (cost-optimized, shared Intel/AMD or Ampere Arm vCPUs), CPX (regular performance, shared AMD vCPUs) and CCX (general purpose, dedicated AMD vCPUs). They are billed by the hour up to a monthly cap, with volumes, networks, firewalls, load balancers, snapshots and backups available.
• Dedicated servers — physical machines in the AX (AMD), EX (Intel), SX (storage-heavy) and GEX (NVIDIA GPU) lines.
• Managed servers — Hetzner installs and maintains the operating system and server software, applies security updates and runs backups; the customer works through the konsoleH panel, without root access.
• Storage — Storage Boxes for backups and files, and S3-compatible Object Storage.
• Web hosting, colocation, domains and SSL certificates.

Not every product runs everywhere. Ashburn, Hillsboro and Singapore are cloud-only: dedicated servers can't be ordered there. The CX and CAX lines and Object Storage are available in Europe only, and cloud prices in the US and Singapore differ from European ones.

How DohoHub tracks Hetzner

• Prices. Our scraper re-reads Hetzner's prices every six hours from the same price data its own website displays, and every change goes into the price history on this page. The figures are monthly euro prices for the German location. They cover the server alone: a public IPv4 address and, on some dedicated and managed servers, a one-off setup fee come on top. Hetzner doesn't advertise introductory discounts, so there is no separate renewal price to show.
• Uptime and response time. We probe hetzner.com — Hetzner's public website — every five minutes from a single server in Toronto. These figures describe the website as seen from North America; they say nothing about the servers Hetzner rents out, and the response time mostly reflects the distance to Europe. We don't benchmark Hetzner's servers.
• DHH Score. Computed daily from five parts — price, long-term price, what's included, reliability and users — and broken down in the section below. The facts behind "What's included" are Hetzner's own statements, each listed with its source and the date we checked it; we record them, we don't test them. The formula is published in our methodology.
• Support. We don't rate support quality: we can't measure it, and the existence of a ticket system says nothing about how fast it answers.

Who it suits

Hetzner fits developers, technical teams, agencies and self-hosters who want control over their servers and close oversight of what they cost, and European businesses that want their hosting in the EU. It is a poorer fit for customers who need hands-off administration across the board or extensive application-level support. Either way, compare the full cost of the configuration you need — server, IPv4, setup fees, backups and your own time — rather than the headline price.

Sources, corrections and independence

The company facts above were checked against Hetzner's own pages on 9 October 2026: company overview, company story, dedicated servers, information security and cloud locations. Citing them tells you what Hetzner says about itself, not that we have tested it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us — see our corrections policy.

Nothing a provider pays — affiliate commission, advertising, a verified badge or a homepage slot — changes its prices on this page or its score. Read how DohoHub makes money and our editorial independence policy.

HosterSale sells cPanel web hosting on LiteSpeed servers with NVMe storage in two lines — four "Cheap Hosting" plans for one site up to unlimited sites, and four "Web Hosting" plans aimed at small businesses and agencies — alongside WordPress Care maintenance plans, WHM reseller packages, dedicated servers, cloud VPS and domain registration. Prices are quoted in US dollars, with a separate rupee storefront under /pk/ for customers in Pakistan.

The prices we track are the storefront's headline figures: the 1-year term for shared hosting and WordPress Care, the monthly rate for reseller packages, cloud VPS and dedicated servers. HosterSale states that renewals cost the same as sign-up, which is unusual in budget hosting, where first-term discounts often end in a much higher renewal. Dedicated servers add a one-time setup fee of $24.99 to $49.99.

The website does not publish a company name, registration number or address. The terms of service (last updated in November 2020) refer to "HosterSale.com", the SLA page to "HosterSale Networks", and the phone contact is a Pakistani WhatsApp number. Company details on this page come from HosterSale's own application to DohoHub.

Cloud VPS plans run in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Hillsboro, Ashburn and Singapore, with root access, a browser VNC console and dedicated IPv4 and IPv6, and HosterSale says a new server is live in about a minute. They are priced per region: European plans include 20 TB of traffic a month, US plans 1–5 TB depending on the plan, and the same configuration costs more in the USA and Singapore than in Europe. Configurations marked sold out on the storefront are left out of our list until they return. Shared-hosting server locations are not stated anywhere on the site.

The 30-day money-back guarantee covers hosting plans; the FAQ excludes domains, VPS and dedicated servers, and the terms also exclude add-ons and domain fees. The storefront advertises 99.9% uptime, while the SLA page guarantees 99.99% network uptime with service credits — the SLA is the commitment that pays out.