Ask HN: Why is Heztner suddenly rising in popularity across the dev community?
It seems they have been around for a long time but during the past months they seem to be receiving more mentions on HN
1. They have been expanding their datacenter locations, particularly into the USA. Naturally, each new location adds a swathe of new potential customers.
2. They offer a genuinely good service for an affordable price. Comparable VPS/dedicated providers (DO, Linode, etc) are often more expensive. The more happy customers they have, the more recommendations you'll see.
3. We've passed the hype phase of putting everything into the cloud, and are collectively realizing that there are positives and negatives to cloud & on-prem. Dedicated hosting is popular again for workloads that benefit from it. It feels like there is growing fatigue with public cloud platforms.
4. People are looking to cut costs in the current economy. Anecdotally, there has been increasing awareness about the large markups that cloud companies put on compute, particularly with second-layer wrapper services like Vercel, that makes VPS providers like Hetzner attractive from an OpEx standpoint.