Performance profiling Kubernetes on Hetzner
Hard numbers behind the technical choices: load balancers, NAT gateways, and what you actually pay for in a CPU core.
Stub. Chapters to follow.
When you choose Hetzner over a hyperscaler, you also choose a different set of trade-offs. Hetzner’s load balancer behaves differently from AWS NLB; their cloud VMs share CPU cores in ways their dedicated servers don’t; running a custom NAT gateway can save real money or burn real engineering time, depending on the workload.
This booklet puts numbers behind the choices. We benchmark the options against real workloads and publish what we found, so you don’t have to.