[diggan]

> Hetzner behaves pretty much like DO, with servers that can be changed in the corresponding management panel. Or what aspect do you think is different?

Parent is comparing Hetzner Dedicated with Upcloud VPS, not Hetzner VPS with Upcloud VPS, I'm not sure you missed this.

But in case it's not a misunderstood question: Dedicated instances are "real" hardware you have full control over, for better or worse, while VPSes are managed by your provider, and are virtualized on top of "real" hardware.

Usually you have better performance and isolation (and higher price :) ) with dedicated servers compared to VPSes, but it also usually means less flexibility. Typically you cannot just "upgrade" a dedicated server to another instance without dealing with the migration yourself, while most VPS providers offer a one-click upgrade/downgrade of instances.

Edit: I see parent now edited their comment to say "Hetzner dedi cloud" where as when I wrote my comment it just said "Hetzner dedi" so seems I'm the one who misunderstood parents comment :)

[onli]

Yeah, that's exactly it and the confusion/edit fits ;) If I'm not missing something those dedicated cloud servers are dedicated in that they are not shared ressources, but can otherwise be managed like the shared "droplets".

I was thinking that maybe the felt difference is in some additional services like block storage (though I think hetzner has a complete offering, without checking the details right now) or in the limitations of the scaling.

Hetzner also has real dedicated servers and sure, your explanation gets the difference there. I appreciate that you gave the comment a real reply in any case :)

[graemep]

They are VPSs with dedicated (unshared) CPUs.

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Initially I wrote "Hetzner Cloud", and then changed to "Hetzner Dedi Cloud", to emphasize that those are more performant VPSes. Shared cloud instances cost even less: €25/month for 16 cores.