Netcup
German VPS with quiet engineering and surprisingly fast hardware.
Netcup is Hetzner's quieter neighbour: same German engineering rigour, similar price-to-performance, with quarterly "Sonderangebot" promotions that make the headline plans look like a pricing error. The VPS 1000 G11 — 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe for ~€6/mo — is the kind of spec sheet that gets traded on r/selfhosted.
The friction is in onboarding: identity verification can require a phone call, the dashboard is heavily German, and it's not as battle-tested-by-the-Hacker-News-crowd as Hetzner. A serious option for the EU-based indie dev who has the patience to set up an account once.
Pros & cons
- + AMD EPYC + NVMe across all VPS plans
- + Bandwidth genuinely unmetered up to 2.5 Gbit/s line speed
- + Special "VPS 1000 G11" deals appear quarterly with absurd specs for the price
- + GDPR by default, German data centres
- − Signup verification still requires a phone call for some non-EU customers
- − Dashboard (SCP / WCP) is German-first; English translation is workable but quirky
- − No managed services
- − Snapshots are paid extra
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS 200 G11 | $4/mo | 2 vCPU | 2 GB | 40 GB | unmetered |
| VPS 1000 G11 | $7/mo | 4 vCPU | 8 GB | 256 GB | unmetered |
| VPS 2000 G11 | $13/mo | 6 vCPU | 16 GB | 512 GB | unmetered |
Features at a glance
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