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Hey guys :)

Im a long-time Hetzner customer for years already since the very early start of Hetzner.
I got around 5 Servers with them and recently saw the massive increase in price for their older servers which i still got.. Now i wanted to switch my server to CX43 or CX53 but they're constantly sold out.

Is it somehow possible to get on a waitlist or get notified when it will be free again? What is expected waiting time for them to become available again?

Thanks
Kind Regards

Wow, over 5 hours down, getting a 502, Google “blocked their account”, and no ETA. I like Railway, but when you’re losing clients... it’s hard to justify staying.

I keep coming back to DHH’s move, using a VPS like Hetzner.

Hetzner looks ridiculously generous. But the real question is the devops time.

Anyone here actually using Hetzner in production?

Please, share your real experience. how many projects you run, how often you deal with outages,how much time you end up spending on devops.

And if anyone wants to share their experience with any alternative, I'd be glad to hear it.

The Hetzner docs here say that you can set up email alerts for exceeding a cost threshold if you go to Account → Billing in Hetzner Console:

https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/billing/faq/#when-will-i-get-my-invoice:~:text=You%20can%20set%20alerts%20that%20will%20send%20you%20an%20email%20if%20you%20exceed%20a%20certain%20cost%20limit%2E

But neither Console nor KonsoleH has a section Account → Billing. The menu on the top right (person icon) has an option called "User account," but if you click on it, it takes you to accounts.hetzner.com, which has no billing section.

I have tried

email / password and it says incorrect login, despite all my passwords are saved in password manager.

tried with K069******** account number but same.

then I tried to recover account using email but "Account is DISABLED?"

also chatbot is not working?

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I'm trying to create a new server in ashburn, and it says every option is not available. Is this the norm, or do I just need to wait a little bit until some become available?

Hello,

I need to rescale my old server cx22 (4gb ram + 40gb ssd running Ubuntu 24.04), option is available for upgrade to cpx32 (8gb ram + 160ssd), which is good for my use case.

The question is will the rescale operation automatically resize the ssd partition of the previous server? if not how it can be resized to take full advantage to the released ssd space?

Are there any gotchas that I need to be careful about? The current server is running 8 websites with cloudpanel as management engine.

Of course I will take a snapshot and my off-site backup before performing the operation.

Any tips and advice is appreciated.

Update: The process is pretty straightforward. Made a snapshot + off-site back. Performed the rescale and everything was running back without an issue with CPX32 specs and resized disk.

Hello

I moved my postgres from Neon tech to Hetzners CX22, my website is basically a statistics website where it gets most information from another source.

However, it is incredibly slow after still trying to adjust the settings to make the search function faster as well as showing the information when going to different pages on the website.

Any idea what I can do?

>Dear Mr,

>After reviewing your updated customer information, we have decided to deactivate your account because of some concerns we have regarding this information. Therefore, we have cancelled all your existing products and orders with us.

>Best regards

>Your Hetzner Online Team

No specifics. No appeal process mentioned. No prior warning. Just gone.

Here's what concerns me:

Under EU consumer protection law and GDPR, companies are generally required to provide a clear reason for account termination, especially when it affects active services and potentially stored data.

Cancelling all products without notice likely violates their own Terms of Service regarding notice periods.

If they hold any of my data, I'm entitled to a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) under GDPR Article 15 which I will be filing immediately.

This also raises questions about refunds for any prepaid services that were cancelled mid-cycle.

Has anyone else experienced this with Hetzner recently? Is this a new pattern of behavior? It feels less like a legitimate security measure and more like an arbitrary decision with zero accountability.

I'm considering filing a complaint with the German data protection authority (BfDI) and potentially the Polish UOKiK since I'm an EU-based business customer.

Would love to hear from others who've dealt with this and any advice on escalation paths.

I have a project with 1 bucket and 2 "access key + secret key" pairs.

I want one of them to have read-only access, and the other full access.

By default, as designed by Hetzner, the access keys have full access to all possible actions on the bucket. https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/faq/s3-credentials/#how-do-i-restrict-access-per-key

So my first thought was to make a policy that would:

1. Deny all.
2. Allow action A and action B.

"Close everything, and only open the permissions needed."

I have made some tests with a policy I pushed with s3cmd, and I have observed that:

• You need to explicitly Deny an action for it to be blocked. If you make a policy that only has Allow statements, everything is still allowed.
• If your principal gets a Deny in any of the statements, that is what sticks in the end. So you can't do the "deny all and then open" strategy, everything will be denied.

My question then is: did I miss something or am I forced to enumerate all 100+ rules that need to be denied? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_Operations_Amazon_Simple_Storage_Service.html

Many people do deep-cleaning projects at home in spring; do you do anything similar on your IT infrastructure once a year, and if so, what?

Hi r/kubernetes, I'm back with another fully free guide and this time it's about how I migrated my cluster of 4 Hetzner dedicated servers from k3s to RKE2.

The original k3s cluster started as a experimental setup for containerized CI/CD workloads, but as we moved more services off EKS, the single control plane node and storage limitations started to encountering issues. RKE2 stood out as a more enterprise-grade option from Rancher (the same folks as behind k3s), so I decided to make the jump and document every step along the way.

The guide walks through the full migration of bootstrapping RKE2 on a new node, migrating the existing nodes one-by-one to become control plane members, and finally decommissioning k3s and rejoining the last node as a worker.

I tried to cover as much as possible with regards to production-readiness:

• Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networking on Hetzner vSwitch
• Canal CNI with WireGuard encryption, MTU/MSS clamping, and default-deny NetworkPolicies
• Longhorn for replicated storage + local-path for fast local volumes
• Traefik DaemonSet behind a Hetzner Cloud Load Balancer for HA ingress
• cert-manager with Let's Encrypt
• HA verification by actually killing each control plane node in turn
• GitHub OIDC for CI/CD authentication using Structured Authentication Configuration

The cluster has been running for a while now and everything works fairly well, but I'd love feedback from more experienced engineers:

• if I missed anything important
• if something is not clear enough
• if you have ideas for additional chapters

Thank you for your time! 😊

Disclaimer: I used LLMs to generate and edit parts of the guide, but most of the content was actually collected during the manual setup and debugging of the cluster.

1. Can I set up an Hetzner account with Redotpay Card (Crypto Card)?

2. Can I deploy Server Auction servers on card with 5$ balance or lower balance?

New into Hetzner eco system.
Trying to log into the server as a root user then planning to configuring ssh keys and change the root password.
But unfortunately, I am not able to log into the server.
I have tried creating multiple server instance but the issue persists. Most probably, I am doing something very silly.

I received the root user password in my email, tried log in using that, it did not work.
Then tried to reset my password from server rescue section, that newly generated root password did not work as well.

Everytime it says wrong password. I also tried to log in from my android device using termux. But same problem.

Here is a small video, that demonstrates what are the steps I took to resolve this issue, but so far no luck.

It feels like the journey will stop before even starting. This is so fustrating.

command history

Here is the link of the video, that explains steps I tried:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RTgHP8yjMYLDosrp8i84BLWt9iQ9XhHo/view?usp=sharing

any help is much appreciated.

otherwise, I am thinking to move out from Hetzner.
May be, it's just not for me.

Helloo guys,

I recently picked up a dedicated server from Hetzner and I’m wondering if it’s a good deal. Prices in 2026 feel a bit all over the place, and sometimes you can find real gems on the Hetzner Auction, so I’m not sure where this one stands.

Specs:

• i7-7700
• 64 GB RAM
• 2×512 GB NVMe
• 2×4 TB HDD
• Falkenstein datacenter

Price: 53.6€ / month (excl. VAT)

Do you think this is a good deal for these specs, or could I have done better?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

is it only on my computer (Eset Protect installed) that this is happening or also to some other people?

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I have Hetzner CX43 cloud server, which is advertised as including 160GB disk space. Hetzner’s own pricing/spec page also lists CX43 as 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM, and 160GB disk.

However, after provisioning the server, I only see around 80GB available.

I submitted a support ticket to Hetzner asking them to check this, but I still have not received a response. This is frustrating because I am paying for a plan that should include 160GB, but the server appears to have only half of that.

Has anyone else experienced this with CX43 or other Hetzner cloud plans? Is this a known provisioning issue, or is there something I need to manually resize on the server?

Any advice would be appreciated.

What would be the best way to move one of my server into a new account I created? Any tips?