Beginner questions before buying

[Lilly]

Hi @wizible welcome to Discourse Meta

Regarding Hetzner, I believe there are folks here who are using Hetzner for Discourse - I think @Canapin has at least one forum instance on Hetzner. Also, I think @denvergeeks does as well. Also perhaps some relevant info in this topic:

Hetzner experiences

Time to test a new hosting company .This time I opted for German Hetzner, and their 4.80€ VPS CX1. Note that this price is VAT inclusive, so it is one of the very cheapest on the market (many providers present VAT 0% prices) for a consumer. It’s a solid package: 1GB RAM 1 Core CPU 25GB SSD 1 snapshot included in the price (paid extra option at OVH and many others) DDoS protection and the usual goodies I was going to benchmark this and move one instance there right away, but th…