Hetzner has officially joined the 2025 Black Week race with a promotion aimed directamente at developers, startups and companies that live from their infrastructure. The German provider has launched a Black Week 2025 campaign that removes setup fees on selected dedicated Root Servers and adds a free month of Storage Share on top.
For anyone planning to upgrade, expand or migrate their hosting environment before 2026, this is a clear opportunity to reduce upfront costs without sacrificing performance or reliability. The offer is already live and runs until 1 December 2025 at 23:59 (CET), or while stocks last – something regular Hetzner customers know can happen fast during sales.
No setup fees on selected dedicated servers
The star of the campaign is the removal of setup fees on a specific range of Hetzner’s Root Servers. According to the provider, customers can save up to € 95.59 per server in these initial one-time charges, which often act as a barrier when deploying new hardware.
Among the models included in the Black Week promotion are:
- EX44 – part of the “EX” series, focused on delivering a solid balance between performance, efficiency and price.
- AX102 and AX162 – members of the “AX” family, designed for more demanding workloads, with modern hardware and a clear focus on raw compute power.
As with the rest of Hetzner’s Root Server line-up, these machines provide:
- Full root access and freedom to install any operating system or stack.
- Resources dedicated to the customer (CPU, RAM and NVMe SSD).
- Suitability for a wide range of use cases: from web hosting and containers to databases, game servers, CI/CD runners or internal business applications.
By eliminating setup fees during Black Week, Hetzner makes it easier for:
- New customers to try their infrastructure with less financial friction.
- Existing clients to spin up extra nodes for scaling or redundancy.
- Teams migrating from other providers to consolidate their environment under one roof.
One free month of Storage Share: cloud storage as a complement
The Black Week promotion is not limited to compute. Hetzner also includes an extra incentive on the storage side: one month of Storage Share for free, on the plan the customer chooses.
Storage Share is Hetzner’s cloud file storage service, designed for:
- Storing and sharing documents and media.
- Syncing files between devices and locations.
- Basic collaboration within teams.
In combination with dedicated servers or VPS, a Storage Share instance can serve as:
- A central hub for config files, backups or assets.
- A simple repository for internal documentation.
- A separate space from production servers for day-to-day file handling.
Having the first month at no cost allows companies and developers to test how this service fits into their workflow, for example as:
- A light backup target for critical configs and exports.
- Shared storage for remote teams working on projects deployed on Hetzner servers.
Why Black Week 2025 matters for infrastructure planning
The timing of the campaign is not random. Many organisations revisit their infrastructure at the end of the year, especially around Black Week, Christmas and year-end peak traffic. Typical scenarios include:
- E-commerce and SaaS platforms preparing for higher traffic and transaction peaks.
- Development teams setting up new environments for 2026: staging, testing, CI/CD or dedicated databases.
- SMBs moving away from shared hosting to more controlled and powerful dedicated or virtual servers.
Removing setup fees on models like EX44, AX102 and AX162 reduces the upfront investment to make those moves. For those who already had a server purchase on their roadmap, Black Week is a good moment to pull the trigger and save on one-time costs, while gaining headroom in CPU, RAM and storage.
From side projects to mission-critical workloads
Although Black Week is often associated with consumer products, Hetzner’s promotion is particularly attractive for a broad range of professional and semi-professional scenarios:
- Independent developers and small agencies can use a server like the EX44 as a central hosting platform for several client projects, panel-based hosting, container clusters or Git runners.
- Startups and scale-ups can adopt AX-series servers for heavier workloads such as databases, analytics, event-driven backends or microservices.
- Technical teams in larger organisations can prototype new architectures, build Kubernetes clusters or deploy observability stacks without adding setup fees to each server.
By combining dedicated servers without setup fees and cloud storage free for the first month, customers can easily assemble a complete environment in a few days, for example:
- One or more application servers.
- A database server with generous RAM and NVMe.
- A Storage Share instance for file-level backups, exports and shared resources.
All integrated within Hetzner’s ecosystem, with predictable pricing and European data centre locations.
A limited-time opportunity
As with most serious Black Week campaigns in the infrastructure world, Hetzner’s 2025 offer is both time-boxed and stock-limited:
- It runs until 1 December 2025 at 23:59 (CET).
- It is explicitly marked as “only while stocks last” for the relevant server models.
In practice, that means customers with an interest in specific configurations – especially AX-series machines, which are popular for high-demand workloads – should not wait until the very end of the promotion. Once a configuration is sold out, the setup discount cannot be applied.
Conclusion: a Black Week that goes beyond gadgets
While most Black Week headlines revolve around TVs, phones and laptops, Hetzner’s 2025 campaign targets a different audience: people and companies whose business depends on servers and cloud infrastructure.
For:
- Online businesses that need more robust hosting,
- Developers and DevOps teams seeking more control and performance,
- And organisations planning an infrastructure refresh for 2026,
this Black Week brings a practical opportunity to cut initial costs and at the same time upgrade to more powerful, flexible servers.
With no setup fees on selected dedicated servers and a free month of Storage Share, Hetzner positions its Black Week as more than a simple discount: it’s a chance to redesign or expand infrastructure in a more cost-efficient way, just before the new year.
FAQs about Hetzner’s Black Week 2025 deals
Until when is Hetzner’s Black Week 2025 promotion available?
The campaign runs until 1 December 2025 at 23:59 (CET), as long as there is still stock of the included server models. Once the promotion period ends or stock is exhausted, the normal setup fees and conditions apply again.
How much can be saved by removing the setup fee on dedicated servers?
Hetzner states that during Black Week it is possible to save up to € 95.59 per server in setup costs. The exact saving depends on the model, but the impact is significant for anyone deploying multiple machines or migrating a full environment.
What does the free month of Storage Share include?
The Black Week offer allows customers to choose a Storage Share plan and get the first month free of charge. Storage Share is a cloud file storage service, useful for documents, light backups, internal collaboration and file syncing across devices. It can complement dedicated servers and VPS by offloading day-to-day file handling and small backup jobs.
Which kinds of projects benefit most from Hetzner’s Black Week deals?
These offers are especially attractive for online shops, SaaS platforms, startups, agencies and technical teams that need more control and performance than shared hosting can provide. Typical use cases include application servers, database nodes, game servers, continuous integration runners, internal tools and hybrid architectures combining dedicated servers with cloud file storage.
