No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is hetzner.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate German hosting provider with 25+ years of operation, though customer reviews highlight billing and account-termination concerns.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
Hetzner Online GmbH is a well-established German company registered since 1997 at Amtsgericht Ansbach (HRB 6089) with active VAT registration and public legal notice. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious detections across 92 engines, clean browser blocklists, and a valid SSL certificate from DigiCert. The domain ranks in the global top-100k by traffic, consistent with a major hosting provider. However, the evidence package reveals a pattern of customer complaints on independent review aggregator, Reddit, and HostAdvice regarding sudden account locks, data deletion without clear appeal, and aggressive billing practices. Positive reviews praise the company's uptime (99.995% claimed), low pricing, and infrastructure reliability. The mixed sentiment reflects operational and support issues rather than fraud — customers report legitimate service problems, not credential theft or financial scams. The company maintains a public phishing-warning page, indicating awareness of impersonation attacks against its brand.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hetzner.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Hetzner Online GmbH is a legitimate German company founded in 1997, registered at Amtsgericht Ansbach under HRB 6089, active with public legal notice and VAT ID.
- The company maintains a public status page warning users about ongoing phishing emails impersonating Hetzner to steal logins and credit card data via fake login pages.
- Hetzner hosts phishing/malicious sites (as noted on phish.report) and has a documented fraud prevention process for new account registrations and orders.
- Multiple customer complaints on Trustpilot, Reddit, HN, and HostAdvice about sudden account locks, data deletion without clear appeal, aggressive billing, and poor support response.
- Positive mentions highlight low prices, high uptime (99.995% claimed), reliable infrastructure, and good value for dedicated servers, cloud, and VPS.
- Trustpilot shows mixed reviews (around 3.2/5 in some summaries) with praise for pricing/speed but criticism of account handling and support.
- No evidence that hetzner.com itself is a scam site; it is the primary domain of a major European hosting provider used by many businesses.
- Trustpilotopen
"disabled account and kept charging me... billing is beyond ruthless and has been nothing short of straight out theft... I've had to cancel my card"
- Redditopen
"A straight up scam at this point.. We used to use Hetzner.com from 2017 - 2021"
- HostAdviceopen
"6 my VPS were DELETED! ... they are blocking my account without explaining the reasons... account does not exist"
- YouTubeopen
"Hetzner Review: The Absurdly Cheap Cloud Scam... account termination policy that destroys data without appeal... 16 account termination incidents"
- Hacker Newsopen
"Reliability and customer support are unbelievably good. 99.995% uptime for the past 10 years."
- Trustpilotopen
"Very honest provider. I've been with them for a while now and they've always been fairly priced and reliable in terms of uptime."
- Hetzner customers pageopen
"With Hetzner there are three things that we really appreciate: it’s reliability, it's latency and it’s cost."
Hetzner Online GmbH, registered at Amtsgericht Ansbach HRB 6089 since 2000 (formerly AG), Gunzenhausen, Germany. VAT DE812871812. CEOs: Martin Hetzner, Stephan Konvickova, Günther Müller.
Our research found substantive customer feedback across multiple platforms. Negative reports on independent review aggregator, Reddit, HostAdvice, and YouTube describe sudden account locks, data deletion without explanation, and aggressive billing practices. Positive reviews on Hacker News and independent review aggregator highlight 99.995% uptime, competitive pricing, and reliable infrastructure. Business registration confirms Hetzner Online GmbH is a legitimate German company founded in 1997, registered at Amtsgericht Ansbach (HRB 6089), with active VAT status. The company maintains a public phishing-warning page, indicating awareness of impersonation attacks. No evidence suggests hetzner.com itself is a scam site; complaints reflect service-quality and account-management disputes rather than fraud.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://hetzner.com/
- 2200https://www.hetzner.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on hetzner.com and not a lookalike like h-etzner.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on hetzner.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- hetzner.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. hetzner.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · Thawte TLS RSA CA G1, expiring in 65 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report hetzner.com as clean.
- No. hetzner.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hetzner.com resolves to an IP operated by Eigene Netze - Hetzner Online AG in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. hetzner.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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