# Hetzner
Hetzner Online GmbH is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure company founded in 1997 by Martin Hetzner in Gunzenhausen, Germany. Known for offering high-performance servers and cloud instances at competitive prices, Hetzner operates data centers in Germany (Nuremberg, Falkenstein), Finland (Helsinki), the US (Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon), and Singapore. It is particularly popular among developers, startups, and self-hosters for its price-to-performance ratio.
Hetzner provides dedicated servers, virtual private servers (VPS) via Hetzner Cloud, colocation, managed servers, storage boxes, and domain registration. Their cloud platform offers an API-first approach with a clean CLI (`hcloud`) and Terraform provider, making it well-suited for infrastructure-as-code workflows.
## Products & Services
| Product | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| **Hetzner Cloud** | Scalable cloud VPS instances (shared & dedicated vCPU) |
| **Dedicated Servers** | Bare-metal servers with full hardware access |
| **Robot (Server Auction)** | Discounted refurbished dedicated servers |
| **Storage Box** | Network-attached storage accessible via SFTP, SCP, Samba, rsync |
| **Managed Servers** | Servers with managed OS and software stack |
| **Colocation** | Housing own hardware in Hetzner data centers |
| **Load Balancers** | Managed load balancing for cloud instances |
| **Firewalls** | Cloud-native firewall rules |
| **Volumes** | Block storage attachable to cloud instances |
| **Primary IPs / Floating IPs** | Static IP addresses for cloud infrastructure |
## Hetzner Cloud CLI
```bash
# Install CLI
brew install hcloud
# Create a server
hcloud server create --name my-server --type cx22 --image ubuntu-24.04
# List servers
hcloud server list
# SSH into server
hcloud server ssh my-server
# Delete server
hcloud server delete my-server
# Manage SSH keys
hcloud ssh-key create --name mykey --public-key-from-file ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
```
## Data Center Locations
| Location | Code | Region |
|----------|------|--------|
| Nuremberg | nbg1 | EU (Germany) |
| Falkenstein | fsn1 | EU (Germany) |
| Helsinki | hel1 | EU (Finland) |
| Ashburn | ash | US (Virginia) |
| Hillsboro | hil | US (Oregon) |
| Singapore | sin | Asia |
## References
- https://www.hetzner.com
- https://docs.hetzner.com
- https://docs.hetzner.cloud
- https://github.com/hetznercloud
## Related
- [[Self-hosting]]
- [[Docker]]
- [[Linux]]