Dedicated servers are not a new idea. Hetzner knows that. What the German provider is betting on is that the economics around enterprise infrastructure have shifted enough to make the old model worth taking seriously again, this time with modern hardware and a European data residency angle that procurement teams increasingly care about.
The four new servers, the DX154-1, DX154-2, DX294-1, and DX294-2, use Dell PowerEdge R470 hardware with Intel Xeon Gold processors from the Granite Rapids generation. The DX154 variants offer 48 cores each, while the DX294 systems step up to 86 cores. All four support Hyper-Threading and Intel VT, making them relevant for dense virtualization, containerized infrastructure, and database workloads that benefit from direct access to physical CPU resources rather than shared cloud instances.
Storage runs on Gen4 NVMe SSDs in datacenter editions, with the entry configurations carrying two 960 GB drives and the larger variants offering four 1.92 TB drives. Memory starts at 128 GB DDR5 on the lower-tier systems and reaches 512 GB on the top configuration. For organizations running virtual machine clusters, in-memory databases, or search indexes, those specifications give actual room to work rather than just enough to get started.
The servers run in Hetzner’s ISO 27001-certified facilities in Nuremberg and Helsinki. Data stays within European legal jurisdiction under GDPR, which has moved from a compliance footnote to a genuine procurement filter for public agencies, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and software vendors operating under EU regulations. Knowing exactly where a workload physically runs, and which laws govern it, simplifies conversations with auditors considerably.
Pricing starts at €705.70 per month plus a one-time setup fee. For finance teams comparing that against equivalent public cloud compute running continuously at high utilization, the math often looks different than the default assumption that cloud is always cheaper.
The buyer Hetzner has in mind here is not experimenting. These are organizations that already know what they need to run: managed service providers hosting customer environments, SaaS companies placing latency-sensitive tiers on dedicated nodes, regulated businesses that need clear infrastructure isolation.
Public cloud still wins on elasticity and managed services. For steady, demanding workloads that run at consistent utilization inside the EU, a predictable monthly server invoice is becoming harder to dismiss.
