Keep your grandfathered Hetzner pricing
As of 15 June 2026, Hetzner has raised list prices on new orders. If you already run servers, your existing ones keep their old rate — but that rate only survives for as long as those exact servers do.
That detail matters more on Kubernetes than people expect, and it’s the reason paasbox works the way it does.
Why Kubernetes usually loses your old price
Section titled “Why Kubernetes usually loses your old price”Kubernetes treats worker nodes as cattle: every upgrade, autoscale event, or node failure tends to delete and recreate them. On a normal setup, each recreated node is a brand-new order — at the new price. Within a few weeks of routine operations, your grandfathered rate is quietly gone, even though you never intentionally changed anything.
What paasbox does instead
Section titled “What paasbox does instead”paasbox preserves your existing servers in place wherever it can — rebuilt, not deleted — so the servers that carry your old rate stay on your account through cluster operations. The result: your locked-in price survives the normal churn of running Kubernetes, instead of eroding with every node cycle.
You can see the difference for your own setup with the savings calculator on the home page, and the full mechanics are written up in Grandfathered pricing.
The short version
Section titled “The short version”- Hetzner’s old prices are tied to the specific servers you already have.
- Standard Kubernetes churns nodes, so it churns away your old price.
- paasbox keeps those servers in place — so you keep the rate.
If you’re already on Hetzner, this is the moment that price protection is worth the most.