How to backup your Hetzner Cloud Servers more frequently and cost-effective

Hetzner is the most popular hosting provider in Germany. Because of its simplicity, stability, and great pricing, it is the first choice for many businesses based in Europe.

One of their most popular products it’s Hetzner Cloud, a direct competitor to AWS and DigitalOcean with a better price.

Backups for Cloud Servers

Hetzner offers a backup solution out of the box, but it has some disadvantages:

• it costs 20% of the Cloud Server price
• it runs only once a day
• you cannot schedule the time when to run
• only the last 7 backups are kept

Hourly to Daily Hetzner Backups using Weap.io

Using Weap.io you can schedule backups for your Hetzner Cloud Servers that run up to every hour and allow you to have full control over the retention policy.

Under the hood, Weap.io uses the Hetzner API to create snapshots. The snapshots are securely stored inside Hetzner’s infrastructure, just like a normal backup. In fact, a Hetzner Snapshot is the same thing as a Hetzner Backup, but with more control and better price.

Another advantage of using snapshots over backups is that instead of paying 20% of the Cloud Server price, you only pay 0.01€/GB/month.