InterServer vs Hetzner Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between InterServer and Hetzner Cloud.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
InterServer
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4.4/5
Hetzner Cloud
0 reviews
Hetzner Cloud is rated higher (4.4 vs 3.9). InterServer guarantees your VPS price never increases on renewal — unusual in hosting industry. US-based with New Jersey datacenter. SSD VPS from $6/month, Linux and Windows options. Solid infrastructure since 1999. 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
InterServer Price-lock VPS — rates never increase on renewal | Hetzner Cloud Affordable VPS hosting with fast deployment and transparent pricing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.4 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $3/mo✓ | From $5.99/mo |
| Best for | US-focused projects that want long-term predictable VPS pricing — multi-year side projects, agencies hosting client sites, budget Windows servers, and cost-sensitive production workloads that dislike renewal hikes | 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 | 1 vCPU | 2 vCPU✓ |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB✓ |
| Storage | 40 GB | 40 GB |
| Bandwidth | 2 TB/mo | 20 TB/mo✓ |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 3 | 6✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €3.00 | €3.00✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €1.50 | €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 | Secaucus/New York City (NJ, US), Dallas (TX, US), Los Angeles (CA, US) | GermanyFinlandUnited StatesSingapore |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | nvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedus datacenterwindows available | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotseu datacenterus datacentergdpr compliantterraform providerapi access |
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InterServer
Pros
- + Lifetime price-lock guarantee — signup rate never increases, including on VPS slices
- + Cloud VPS from $3/mo (1 core, 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD, 2TB transfer) with linear slice scaling
- + Owns and operates its US data centers since 2006 — rare at this price point
- + Free DDoS protection (100Gbps-class) on VPS and dedicated servers
- + Windows VPS at Linux pricing; managed support included from 8 slices ($24/mo)
Cons
- - US-only data centers (NYC, Dallas, LA) — high latency for European and Asian audiences
- - VPS backups are a paid add-on and no snapshot product is advertised on the cloud VPS line
- - No money-back guarantee on VPS plans (shared hosting has 30 days)
- - 99.9% uptime guarantee is weaker than the 99.99% SLAs common elsewhere
- - Dated control-panel ecosystem and storefront; cPanel costs about $15/mo extra
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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