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Hetzner Cloud CCX13 review: when shared cores are enough
Hetzner's smallest dedicated-CPU plan, on a one-month real workload. Spoiler: it's good.
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The CCX13 is Hetzner’s smallest dedicated-CPU instance: 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM, 80GB NVMe, 20TB bandwidth, ~€13/mo. We ran it as a Postgres + sidecar app server for a month.
How it held up
Median p99 query time held under 12ms across the test window. CPU steal was zero, as advertised. Disk IO was unremarkable in the way good infrastructure is unremarkable.
What you give up
Cloud features. There’s no managed Postgres, no managed Redis, no equivalent of S3-style object storage. If you want those, Hetzner Cloud is the wrong layer of the stack.
For a small SaaS or a side project, CCX13 is hard to argue with.
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