Hetzner, known for its exceptional price-to-performance ratio in Europe, opens a second US facility in Ashburn, Virginia — home to more internet infrastructure than anywhere else on earth.
Why Ashburn Matters
Ashburn, Virginia hosts over 70% of the world's internet traffic at peak times. The MAE-East and Equinix Ashburn campuses make it the lowest-latency location for reaching most of the eastern United States, Canada and transatlantic connections.
What Hetzner Offers in the US
- Dedicated servers from $39/month — significantly cheaper than AWS or DigitalOcean
- Cloud VPS from $3.29/month with NVMe SSD
- 20Gbps uplink on dedicated servers
- No bandwidth overcharges on most plans
- Same Robot panel as European facilities
Comparing US Providers
# Typical dedicated server comparison (entry level)
Hetzner US: $39/month — i5/i7, 64GB RAM, 2x512GB NVMe
DigitalOcean: $248/month — equivalent spec
Vultr: $180/month — equivalent spec
AWS c5.2xlarge: $248/month — no dedicated storage includedMigration Considerations
Moving from a European Hetzner server to US requires DNS changes and data transfer. Plan for 2-4 hours of migration time for a typical web server.
Conclusion
Hetzner's US expansion brings genuine competition to the American dedicated server market. Our team handles server migrations between any providers with zero data loss.
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