The Sovereign Hetzner Alternative in India
Hetzner's price, but in an Indian region your users and the DPDP Act can both reach.
Should you switch from Hetzner?
Stay on Hetzner if your users are in Europe - nothing beats its price there. Move to DataDack if your users are in India: Hetzner has no Indian region, so every request leaves the country and personal data sits outside Indian jurisdiction under the DPDP Act.
Who should move, and who should stay
Switch to DataDack if
- India-facing products currently served from Germany or Finland
- Anyone who needs personal data of Indians to stay in India
- Teams who want Hetzner's flat-rate habit with an Indian invoice
- Workloads where round-trip latency is user-visible
Stay on Hetzner if
- Your users are in Europe or North America - Hetzner is excellent there
- You are optimising purely for the lowest possible euro price
- Latency and jurisdiction genuinely do not matter to your workload
- You run a hobby project where cost is the only criterion
Why teams move from Hetzner to DataDack
Priced in rupees
Flat-rate monthly or pay-as-you-go hourly compute in INR with zero surprise bandwidth invoices.
ap-south-3 Noida
Sovereign Tier-IV infrastructure in Noida with sub-10ms latency across Northern India & DPDP compliance.
DDoS Protection
Always-on L3/L4 volumetric attack mitigation standard on every single virtual instance.
What you actually pay on DataDack
Reserved monthly rates in the Noida ap-south-3 region.
| Specification | DataDack |
|---|---|
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 30 GB SAS HDD | ₹1,152/mo |
| 4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 30 GB SSD | ₹6,498/mo |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 30 GB NVMe | ₹11,331/mo |
Detailed Feature Matrix: DataDack vs Hetzner
Side-by-side technical and operational benchmark comparison
| Feature / Capability | DataDack Cloud | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|
| Indian region | Noida (ap-south-3), Tier-IV | None - Germany, Finland, US, Singapore |
| Data residency under the DPDP Act | Stays in Indian jurisdiction | Cross-border by design |
| Billing | Flat INR with a GST invoice | EUR, no Indian GST invoice |
| DDoS protection | Free L3/L4 on every plan | Included, EU/US scrubbing |
| Support | 24/7 engineers in Indian hours | Ticket-based, CET hours |
Moving off Hetzner, step by step
- Step 1Inventory what runs on Hetzner today — instance sizes, disks, open ports and DNS records.
- Step 2Pick the matched DataDack plan and create the instance in the console, in the Noida ap-south-3 region.
- Step 3Move the data: restore from a snapshot or image, or sync the application and database over the VPC.
- Step 4Lower the DNS TTL, cut traffic over to the new IPv4 and verify, then destroy the source instance — billing stops the same hour.
What carries over unchanged
A move off Hetzner is a re-host, not a rewrite. These come with you as they are:
- Your Linux distro and kernel
- Docker and docker-compose files
- Nginx, Caddy or HAProxy configs
- Your CI pipeline - only the deploy target changes
- SSH keys and your existing automation
- Postgres, MySQL, Redis and their dumps
- Cron jobs and systemd units
- Your domain and TLS certificates
DataDack vs Hetzner: common questions
- How does DataDack's pricing compare with Hetzner?
- DataDack bills a flat INR amount with a GST invoice rather than a USD card charge plus conversion fees, and charges no egress. Compare a matched instance on the pricing page for the current figure.
- Where do my workloads run after moving off Hetzner?
- In the sovereign Noida region (ap-south-3), inside Tier-IV facilities operated by Yotta NM1 and CtrlS. Data stays in Indian jurisdiction, which is what makes DataDack DPDP-compliant by default rather than by configuration.
- Is DDoS protection an extra like it is elsewhere?
- No. Always-on Layer 3 / Layer 4 mitigation is standard on every VPS and VM, including the Starter tier, and is never a paid add-on.
- Are there egress or bandwidth charges?
- No surprise egress invoices. Generous transfer is included with every plan and internal VPC traffic is unmetered.
- How long does a migration from Hetzner take?
- Most single-instance moves are done in an afternoon: create the matched plan, restore your image or sync the app, then cut DNS over. Our engineers will do the first instance with you — ask on /contact before you start.
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