Hetzner is to big for netcup, so technicaly it's not even close to battle. Hetz is #1 in germany.

Their price/specs look similar, except that Hetzner use NVMe and Netcup is using SSD.

Here's a side-by-side comparison of the four smallest VPS plans offered by Hetzner and netcup (the prices include German VAT):

At this point I could never just return to netcup like "Oh I got some balance at netcup left. Let's spin up a vps for a couple days/hours."

So netcup just stated that you can't use the remaining prepaid balance to order a new hourly vps and use the balance first before being billed again. Instead you have to again prepay for 6 months and

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EDIT also, you'd like to check the netcup thread maybe

Is NetCup using NVME or their standard SSD for this?

Yup I've seen it now, ty

@mfs Netcup said that Generation 8 for their roots is being delayed due to spectre/meltdown and they are either gonna wait for brand new intel cpus which are fixed or hope for a price drop from intel

I would guess that for real power users, Hetzner is probably the better choice, but for me personally, netcup wins.

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I noticed the G8 series yesterday as well, almost as soon as the Hetzner offer come out. If the same G8 series will be extended to the root series, I will have to feel sorry for my pocket. I haven't f

I expect Hetzner's API and integrations will outpace netcup.

i think that coincident. netcup english site not yet updated.

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