Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
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Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
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Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#2You really put your admin credentials in a blog post. Lucky I can't seem to hit that IP.
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#3My experience with Hetzner VM pricing has turned me off of considering them for anything else. Maybe the experience in other world regions is not the same but this is what happened to us:
I started to use Hetzner's VM options in the Virginia, US datacenter. They had a great performance to cost ratio when I compared them to Linode/Akamai and Digital Ocean about a year ago. At that time, 4vcpu / 8GB server cost $24.99 per month.
Now, to get a VM like it, it's quoted $73.49 a month. Almost a 3x change.
I understand data center economics are changing due to LLM usage. But the Hetzner jump has not been mirrored by their competitors. I'm disappointed I made the switch from Linode. We still have some older VMs there and we'll likely continue to use them instead of Hetzner moving forward.
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#4"Cheap" in terms of money, ~30K in terms of lines of code that you eventually gonna need to bite the apple and read through and understand, 10K of which is HCL.
End cost seems to be ~60 EUR/month for a cluster of machines, which isn't too bad. Still, I suppose once you're even dealing with such small amounts, even thinking about distributed architecture or similar things feels a bit too early.
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#5For those interested in this I also recommend autobase, a set of ansible roles for a highly available postgres cluster on hetzner or other clouds: https://github.com/autobase-tech/autobase
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#6Terraform has been such a delight in the age of LLMs.
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#7My experience with Hetzner VM pricing has turned me off of considering them for anything else. Maybe the experience in other world regions is not the same but this is what happened to us: I started to use Hetzner's VM options in the Virginia, US datacenter. They had a great performance to cost ratio when I compared them to Linode/Akamai and Digital Ocean about a year ago. At that time, 4vcpu / 8GB server cost $24.99…
Yeah, RAM shortage has caught up with them. Send a thank you note to Anthropic and OpenAI.
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#8I developed a Karpenter provider for Hetzner recently. Might interesting for you to integrate.
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#9> Cheap
> Hetzner cloud
> published in December 2025
which means that it's twice as expensive now as it was when the article was published
Re: Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)
#10My experience with Hetzner VM pricing has turned me off of considering them for anything else. Maybe the experience in other world regions is not the same but this is what happened to us: I started to use Hetzner's VM options in the Virginia, US datacenter. They had a great performance to cost ratio when I compared them to Linode/Akamai and Digital Ocean about a year ago. At that time, 4vcpu / 8GB server cost $24.99…
This has been my experience too. I migrated a few dozen projects from DO to Hetzner, and my monthly bill went from about $80 to around $162. The only thing that changed was Hetzner's rate hikes.
Now I'm in a weird spot. I could downgrade some servers, but changing them would immediately move me onto the new pricing. So I either pay more for less hardware, or pay a lot, lot more if I ever need to scale back up.