Evolution Host vs Hetzner Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Evolution Host and Hetzner Cloud.
Quick Verdict
3.5/5
Evolution Host
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4.4/5
Hetzner Cloud
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Hetzner Cloud is rated higher (4.4 vs 3.5). Evolution Host provides KVM VPS and VDS with NVMe storage, included EvoShield DDoS protection and daily off-site backups across 15 locations in Europe, the US and Asia. Ireland-registered (Evolution Host Ltd); VPS plans from €5/mo. German cloud provider offering the best price-to-performance ratio in the market. CX22 (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB NVMe) costs €4.35/month. Loved by European developers for fast NVMe, generous bandwidth, a
Evolution Host High-performance VPS hosting with AMD EPYC processors and NVMe storage | Hetzner Cloud Affordable VPS hosting with fast deployment and transparent pricing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.5 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $5/mo✓ | From $5.99/mo |
| Best for | Game-server operators, FiveM communities and application owners who are actively targeted by DDoS attacks and want mitigation, daily off-site backups and generous transfer included in a mid-range VPS price. | Developers and small teams who want unmanaged Linux infrastructure at the lowest cost per unit of compute, especially for European workloads with data-residency requirements, dev/test environments, CI runners, and price-sensitive production web apps. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | — | 2 vCPU |
| RAM | — | 4 GB |
| Storage | — | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 20 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.95%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 15✓ | 6 |
| €/vCPU/mo | — | €3.00 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | — | €1.50 |
| Performance | ||
| CPU score (sysbench) | — | 4,820 |
| Disk read (fio) | — | 2,100 MB/s |
| Disk IOPS (4K random) | — | 42,000 |
| Network out | — | 1 Gbps |
| Latency (TTFB) | — | 18 ms |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | 15 locations across Europe, the US and Asia | GermanyFinlandUnited StatesSingapore |
| Tags | ||
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Evolution Host
Pros
- + EvoShield DDoS mitigation (layers 3/4/7, per-application profiles, documented API) included on every plan
- + Daily off-site backups to redundant storage in at least two regions are standard, not an upsell
- + Generous transfer allowances: 10TB at €5/mo up to 100TB at €100/mo, plus up to 64 IPv4 addresses
- + Published spec-and-price table with VAT included where applicable; no hidden spec rounding
- + 15 locations across three continents, with remote DDoS protection usable on infrastructure hosted elsewhere
- + KVM with genuinely dedicated resources, DDR5/NVMe, high-clock CPUs and BYOL Windows support
Cons
- - Per-euro hardware trails value leaders (1 core/1GB at €5 vs benchmarked 2 vCPU/4GB boxes at similar money)
- - SLA inconsistency: 99.95% uptime on the homepage, '100% Uptime SLA' on the VPS page, no credits document
- - Asia-Pacific locations (Singapore, India, Australia) bill at double the standard rate
- - Small company with thin corporate transparency: no founding year, directory listings disagree on the address
- - IPv6 not supported at the Helsinki and Miami locations; no Terraform/IaC story visible
Hetzner Cloud
Pros
- + Best CPU-per-euro in our 2026-04-01 benchmark run: the CX22 outperformed plans costing up to six times as much
- + Strong NVMe throughput: 2,100-2,400 MB/s sequential reads and 42,000-48,000 random 4K IOPS in our tests
- + Transparent hourly billing with a monthly price cap and no setup fees or contracts
- + Six cloud locations with owned, ISO 27001-certified EU data centers and GDPR-compliant processing
- + At least 20 TB included transfer at EU locations, plus free DDoS mitigation for all customers
- + Mature automation: REST API, Terraform provider, official Go/Python libraries, cloud firewalls and private networks
Cons
- - Backups and snapshots are paid add-ons rather than plan inclusions, which erodes the headline price advantage
- - Email-only support with no phone option and no managed tier for cloud customers
- - Entry plans use shared vCPUs and Hetzner offers no bandwidth guarantee (typical 300-500 Mbit/s stated by Hetzner)
- - No supported Windows installs and a smaller managed-ecosystem than larger providers
- - Default resource limits on new accounts require a support ticket to raise; cost-optimized stock is periodically unavailable
- - Object storage only available in the three European locations
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