It's slightly more work, in my experience, to set up and administrate a Hetzner VPS, than to do the same with DO or AWS. Slightly. Trivially slightly. I use Hetzner and I have been nothing but happy with their product and service.
Yeah. For me, the only thing I miss when using Hetzner is the lack of a good startup script. Hetzner has something like an Ansible YML file you can use, but then if you want to reimage your machine, it doesn't give you any choice (that I've found) except to reuse the original script.
What I'd like to have is something like Linode's start scripts feature which I've always found to be very nicely implemented.
Why have startup scripts when you can run your very own images? `Installimage` (https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/operating-sy...) allows you to install and run your own custom images, so run any bootstrapping once, create image from the results and then install that on the machines.
If you really really need startup scripts, it'll be trivial to add it to your own image. Packer (and similar tooling) makes it trivial to create your own images as well.
It's just a minor gripe, but... a simple bash script (like Linode's start scripts) is a lot easier than what Hetzner offers-- a custom ISO? Nah. I'll just scp my script when the server is ready and run it myself.
Hetzner Cloud also has an extensive ISO library, and if there is something that is missing from that library that you would like to have -- including a specific custom image -- customers can write a support ticket on Cloud Console and our team can upload it for you. --Katie
