Hetzner vs Servarica: Which Is Better?
We track Hetzner and Servarica prices, uptime and specs 24/7. Here's the live head-to-head for September 2026 — no paid rankings, just the data.
About HetznerHetzner is a German cloud and dedicated-server provider famous for the best price-to-performance in Europe. Where Contabo competes on raw resources, Hetzner competes on network quality, low latency and a polished API — ideal for developers running latency-sensitive workloads.
About ServaricaServarica is a Canadian-owned and operated hosting provider founded in 2010. It started as an internal hosting project and grew into a full provider with its own routers, ASN and multi-carrier network out of a single Montreal data center. The catalog spans KVM VPS with dedicated cores, NVMe and RAIDz2 storage VPS with daily-expanding disks, dedicated servers from compact EPYC boxes to 192 TB storage giants, a Tesla P40 GPU VPS, and shared hosting with 2 TB plans. All plans sit behind a 99.99% network SLA with cash refunds, and the facility runs on 100% hydroelectric power.
Comparison Table
| Feature | Hetzner | Servarica |
|---|---|---|
| Price / mo | $1.86 | $1.33 win |
| Renewal price | Same as initial | Same price (no intro deals) |
| Datacenters | 5 win | 1 |
| NVMe storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Free domain | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Backups | Paid | Weekly (shared only) |
| CDN | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Support | Ticket 1-4h | Ticket & email 24/7 |
| Uptime · 30d | 99.13% win | 98.98% |
Price History
Hetzner · Webhosting SCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Servarica · SSD StarterCollecting price history — the trend fills in as we track this plan.
Uptime & Performance
Hetzner 99.13% Servarica 98.98%Pros & Cons
Hetzner- Exceptional price-to-performance — among the cheapest x86 VPS in the EU
- 99.9% uptime advertised for Hetzner Cloud (provider claim)
- Full-featured API with Terraform provider and Kubernetes support
- ARM servers (CAX) starting €3.29/mo — cheapest in Europe
- Transparent pricing — no hidden fees, no bandwidth surprises
- 5 datacenter locations: Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki, Ashburn, Singapore
- Support is ticket-based only — no live chat or phone
- UI/UX less polished than DigitalOcean or Vultr
- No managed databases (must self-manage)
- Limited global footprint — no APAC or LATAM DCs
- No Windows server images available
- Support response can be slow on weekends
Servarica- Genuine budget pricing — KVM VPS from $5/mo with dedicated cores
- Unmetered bandwidth on most plans (250 Mbps, growing +1 Mbps/day)
- Huge storage options — up to 8 TB RAIDz2 VPS and 24× 8 TB dedicated
- 100% Canadian-owned, single Montreal DC outside US data law
- Tiered SLA: 99.0%+ = 15% refund, up to 100% below 95% uptime
- Dedicated IPMI console included on all dedicated servers
- Single data center — no redundancy across regions
- Ticket/email support only — no live chat or phone
- No DDoS protection advertised on any plan
- Older dedicated hardware on budget tiers (Xeon E5 v2/v4, DDR3)
- Fraud screening can delay new orders by hours
- No money-back guarantee — refunds only via the SLA
The Verdict
On the data we track, Hetzner wins more rows in the comparison table above (2 vs 1). That said, the right pick depends on which rows matter most for your use case — price, uptime, datacenters or backups.
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FAQ
Right now Servarica has the lower entry price across the plans we track. Prices update every few hours — the live snapshot above always shows the current starting price for both.
Over the last 30 days of our monitoring, Hetzner had the higher measured uptime. We ping both providers every few minutes from multiple locations — see the uptime graph above.
Yes. Both run standard KVM virtualization, so you can snapshot your server, export the image, and import it on the other provider. For most stacks a fresh deploy plus a data copy is simpler.
It depends on your priority: pick the one that wins on the rows that matter most to you in the table above (price, uptime, datacenters, backups). For latency-sensitive apps favour uptime and network; for value favour price and specs.