MapleDeploy vs Hetzner
Hetzner rents you a low-cost server abroad. MapleDeploy runs one for you in Toronto.
Hetzner is a German hosting company known for low prices on cloud and dedicated servers. It sponsors the Coolify project, and Coolify can create a Hetzner server from its own dashboard. It has no Canadian location: its cloud servers run in Germany, Finland, the US and Singapore. MapleDeploy hosts every server in Toronto and manages it for you. This page covers where each one puts your data, what each leaves to you, and what each costs.
Side by side
What you get
- Hetzner
- Cloud and dedicated servers you run
- MapleDeploy
- Dedicated VM with your own Coolify instance
Locations
- Hetzner
- Germany, Finland, US (Virginia, Oregon), Singapore
- MapleDeploy
- Toronto
Server administration
- Hetzner
- You, on cloud and dedicated servers
- MapleDeploy
- Handled for you
Deploy platform
- Hetzner
- Bring your own
- MapleDeploy
- Coolify, installed and updated
Backups
- Hetzner
- Your responsibility on cloud and dedicated servers; daily cloud server backups are a paid option
- MapleDeploy
- Weekly full-server snapshots included
Customer contract
- Hetzner
- Hetzner Online GmbH, under German law
- MapleDeploy
- Ontario business, under Ontario law
Headquarters
- Hetzner
- Germany
- MapleDeploy
- Canada
Pricing
- Hetzner
- 2 vCPU, 4 GB from €16.99/mo excl. VAT, plus your time
- MapleDeploy
- From $45 CAD/mo, server upkeep included
When Hetzner is the right choice
Hetzner's prices per core and per gigabyte are low. If your users are in Europe, or Canadian hosting doesn't matter for your project, a Hetzner server gives you a lot of machine for the money.
It also suits developers who like running their own servers. Coolify can create a Hetzner server for you. From then on the patching is yours, and backups are a paid option you turn on.
Location: where your data lives
Hetzner Cloud's locations are Falkenstein and Nuremberg in Germany, Helsinki in Finland, Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon in the US, and Singapore. None is in Canada.
For a Canadian audience, that means a choice between Europe, with the latency of crossing the Atlantic, and the US. Hetzner is a German company and its terms are governed by German law, so a European location keeps your server with a European provider in Europe.
If you want your code and your data hosted in Canada, Hetzner doesn't offer that. MapleDeploy runs on Canadian infrastructure in Toronto, with a privately owned Canadian provider that has no US parent company. Your code and your data are hosted under Canadian jurisdiction, on infrastructure built for PIPEDA compliance, on every plan.
What a Hetzner server leaves to you
Hetzner's terms are clear about the split. The customer has full and sole administrator rights on its root and cloud servers, and is responsible for managing and securing them and for making regular backups of their data. Hetzner runs the hardware and network underneath. It also sells managed servers in Nuremberg, which it administers and which come without root access.
On a cloud or dedicated server, the operating system is yours: updates, kernel patches, firewall rules and SSH hardening. So is the deploy platform. You install and update Coolify, Docker or whatever you use, and keep the disk from filling with old images. On cloud servers, daily automatic backups are available as a paid option.
None of that is hard, but it never finishes. We walk through the full list in self-hosting Coolify vs managed Coolify.
What MapleDeploy handles
MapleDeploy runs the server and Coolify together. You get a dedicated VM in Toronto, ready in minutes, and you deploy through the Coolify dashboard.
- Security hardening. SSH key authentication, fail2ban, outbound SMTP blocking, and automatic security patches, applied before you first log in.
- OS patches. Operating system updates and kernel patches are applied for you. When a kernel update needs a reboot, it happens in a fixed 07:50 UTC window.
- Coolify itself. We run a public fork of Coolify that we rebase regularly against upstream. Changes are limited to Canadian branding and MapleDeploy integrations.
- Snapshots. Weekly full-server snapshots covering the OS, Coolify, containers, volumes and databases.
Snapshots are disaster recovery, not granular restores. For production databases, you should still set up Coolify's S3 database backups on a daily schedule.
Comparing the cost
Hetzner lists its CPX22 cloud server, with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB of RAM and 80 GB of NVMe storage, from €16.99 a month excluding VAT in Helsinki and €19.99 in Nuremberg. Its US locations offer the CPX21, with 3 vCPUs and 4 GB, at €32.49. That's the price of the machine, outside Canada. The time to run it is on top.
MapleDeploy starts at $45 CAD/month for a dedicated VM in Toronto with 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs and 35 GB of storage. Coolify, patches and snapshots are in that price, with no per-project or usage fees. Starter and Pro include a 30-day free trial.
If price matters most and your data can live abroad, Hetzner will cost less. If you want it in Canada and off your plate, that's what the difference pays for.
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