URLStart vs Hetzner Cloud:
Europe’s best value, 6,000 km from your users.
Hetzner is the benchmark for cheap, well-run European cloud servers, in Germany, Finland, Singapore and the USA. It has no India location. URLStart runs KVM VPS from ₹584 a month in a Tier IV datacenter in Noida, Delhi NCR. If your users are in India, the comparison is mostly about latency, billing and support.
URLStart or Hetzner for a server serving India — the short answer
- TL;DR
- Hetzner Cloud is available in Germany, Finland, Singapore and the USA; its site lists no Indian location. The nearest region to India is Singapore
- Prices are in EUR and among the lowest in Europe; Hetzner lists Linux distributions and does not mention Windows or DDoS protection on its cloud page
- URLStart’s VPS is ₹584/month annual (4 GB) in a Tier IV datacenter in Noida, with Windows included, DDoS scrubbing included, INR billing and 24/7 engineers
- For Indian users, Noida is single-digit milliseconds from Delhi NCR; Singapore is tens of milliseconds and Germany far more, on every request
Hetzner is excellent at what it does, and developers love it for good reason: clean cloud, honest pricing, good hardware. The question is simply where your users are. A request from Delhi to Frankfurt crosses continents and comes back; a request from Delhi to Noida does not leave the metro. For a European audience, Hetzner. For an Indian audience, or for data that must stay in India, or when you want a GST invoice and someone to phone, URLStart. Some teams run both: Hetzner for builds and backups, URLStart for the server customers hit.
- Hetzner locations
- Germany · Finland · USA · Singapore
- URLStart location
- Noida, Delhi NCR
- Hetzner billing
- EUR
- URLStart from
- ₹584/mo annual
- Windows
- Not listed · included
- DDoS
- Not stated · included
- Data residency
- Outside India · India
URLStart vs Hetzner, line by line.
Hetzner facts are quoted from its own public pages in October 2026 and can change; URLStart figures are from the live plan table. Verify both before deciding.
| Hetzner Cloud (their site) | URLStart Cloud VPS | |
|---|---|---|
| Locations | Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki, Hillsboro, Ashburn, Singapore; no India | Tier IV datacenter in Noida, Delhi NCR |
| Nearest region to Delhi | Singapore | Noida, in the metro |
| Latency from Delhi NCR | Tens of ms to Singapore, far more to Germany | Single-digit ms across Delhi NCR, low across north India |
| Currency and tax | EUR | INR · GST invoice with a UP GSTIN · UPI, cards, net banking |
| Entry price | Published in EUR on their site; not reproduced here | ₹584/mo annual · ₹749 monthly (4 GB, 2 vCPU, 50 GB NVMe) · renews at the same price |
| Operating systems | Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and other Linux | Windows Server, licence included, same price as Linux |
| DDoS protection | Not mentioned on the cloud page; stateful firewalls included | Included on every plan |
| Data residency | EU, US or Singapore | India; company registered in Noida |
| API and automation | Full API, CLI, Terraform, load balancers | Control panel and WHMCS; API on request |
| Support | Ticket-based | 24/7 engineers with console access, ticket, chat, phone |
| Migration | Self-service | Free |
What 6,000 km costs, and what Noida gives back.
The differences that show up on the invoice and in the ping, not in the brochure.
Latency where your users are
A server in Noida is a few milliseconds from Delhi NCR and close to all of north India. Mumbai regions add a cross-country hop; Singapore or Europe add tens of milliseconds every request.
Rupee billing, GST invoice
You pay in INR by UPI, card or net banking and get a GST invoice you can claim input credit on. No forex markup, no international card fees.
Engineers you can reach
24/7 support by engineers with console access, in your time zone, including phone. Not a ticket queue that answers overnight.
DDoS scrubbing included
Every plan sits behind our scrubbing edge; there is no protection tier to buy.
Free migration
We move your sites, databases and data from the current provider and you verify before DNS switches.
Data stays in India
The hardware is in India and the company is registered in Noida. Relevant for compliance, invoices and who you can call.
How to decide between the two.
Fifteen minutes, no cost.
Measure the latency
Ask us for a test IP in Noida and ping it from your office or your users’ city. Do the same against your current server.
Price the whole bill
Add their renewal price, currency conversion, international card fees, DDoS or backup add-ons and GST treatment to the headline figure.
Move for free
Send us the current server details; we migrate, you test on a temporary address, then DNS changes.
One network. Owned edge, scrubbed transit.
Traffic enters through redundant edges with DDoS scrubbing in the path, crosses a 10 Gbps core, and lands on our hardware in our Tier IV datacenter in Noida. Every plan gets the same path.
Frequently asked.
Straight answers.