The Hostfory alternative to Hetzner
Hetzner is excellent value for clean, low-bandwidth workloads. It becomes a poor fit the moment you push real traffic, run streaming, or need a permissive AUP.
Hetzner is a German budget-cloud giant optimised for developers running standard web, CI and low-egress workloads at the lowest possible price. Hostfory is a high-bandwidth specialist for streaming, IPTV, CDN and high-traffic operators who need unmetered ports, a permissive-but-lawful AUP, and DDoS protection that is on by default.
Hostfory vs Hetzner
| Hostfory | Hetzner | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth model | True unmetered port (10–400G) | Metered / capped, egress billed past quota |
| IPTV / streaming | Explicitly allowed | Restricted, frequent suspensions |
| DDoS protection | Always-on, included | Basic, extra for real scrubbing |
| Crypto / no-KYC | BTC/XMR, no-KYC under $5k/mo | Card/SEPA, full KYC |
| Entry price | From $12 VPS / $179 dedicated | Lower on clean low-egress boxes |
| Port speeds | Up to 400 Gbit/s unmetered | 1–10 Gbit, egress-metered |
When operators switch from Hetzner
- Your Hetzner box got suspended or warned for streaming / high traffic
- You are paying egress overage on a workload that should be flat-rate unmetered
- You need real DDoS scrubbing, not a basic filter
- You want to pay in crypto without full KYC
Hetzner is genuinely great if your workload is clean, low-egress and price-sensitive — standard web hosting, dev boxes, CI runners, backups. If that is you, stay. We are the better fit specifically when bandwidth, streaming content, or DDoS resilience is the constraint.
Ready to move?
Moving from Hetzner? Our team handles the migration — rsync / disk-image clone over a private link, DNS pre-cut, reverse-proxy bridge during cut-over. Average visible downtime under 60 seconds. Free on annual prepay, $150 one-time on monthly.