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Hetzner stopts with their referral program
Thank you very much for sharing your enthusiasm for our services as a satisfied customer and for actively participating in our Referral program https://console.hetzner.com/referrals.
However, we would like to inform you that we are discontinuing this program in its current form. This decision is part of a strategic realignment in which we are simplifying our offerings and will focus more heavily on central promo code campaigns in the future.
What does this mean for you specifically?
Your existing individual referral links will remain valid until 15 June 2026. After that, these links will redirect to a general promo code worth 20 euros for new customers.
Referral bonuses can therefore only be credited until 31 August 2026. You can continue to redeem any credits you have already received until 31 December 2027.
We sincerely thank you for your trust and cooperation, and for your understanding regarding this change.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please use the contact form in your administration interface under the “Support” menu item.
Best regards,
Hetzner Online
It give me 90 euro so far
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Blame AI
Strange that they had it at all. Refd programs is marketing and hetz is far from lacking of marketing
@Hetzner_OL no more excuses for lack of LET 7$ per year special codes.
Honestly I don't see the point in referral schemes. Sure, in some edge cases a very small handful of people might bring business in, but I think the vast majority aren't. They're people who have already decided what they want and then click on an affiliate link by accident. I think in most cases, I'd prefer providers just provide the most competitive price they can and not pay any affiliate bonuses.
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Depends on the type of product i guess. There sure is situations where offering referral commissions could get you some serious amount of grassroots advertisement. Servers isn't one of those though. This isn't some generic every day item like toilet paper or toothpaste.
Most people simply won't have an audience to "recommend" to large enough for it to make the theoretical payout worth jumping through hoops and where such an audience exists (like LET for example) those kind of "payed recommendations" have a tendency to incentivize suboptimal advice due to accompanied financial gain.
Can't tell about a payout, but I knew a guy, who had a (rather small) machine with Hetzner running (at least mostly) on account credits for years.
Haven't heard any complaints from him.
Now the big question is: How did he promote it? I am going to take a leap and assume i likely wasn't (solely) by recommending Hetzner to his friends/family. These types of programs obviously can be worthwhile but i think if they do the account holder probably runs something specifically designed to profit off of it (which the average hosting client won't do).