PAASBOX
Run Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud and Dedicated Servers
You bring the infrastructure, PAASBOX brings the control plane. It doesn't delete your servers, so you can keep your grandfathered Hetzner prices.
What would you save?
Estimates in euro, gross (incl. 19% VAT). Your Hetzner node bill is separate. Prices: Hetzner list, 2026-06-15.
Open the detailed calculator →Kubernetes vs. grandfathered prices
Section titled “Kubernetes vs. grandfathered prices”Since 15 June 2026, Hetzner raised their prices, significantly: CPX is up 144–173%, CCX up 122%. The good thing is, Hetzner left already-running servers on their old rate. The catch: Kubernetes treats worker nodes as cattle. Every upgrade, autoscale, or node failure deletes and recreates them, re-ordering each one at the new price. Within weeks your grandfathered rates are gone.
PAASBOX fixes this. An automated control plane provisions and operates your clusters, and preserves your existing servers in place. Servers are rebuilt, never deleted. Your locked-in rates survive cluster lifecycle operations.
What you get
Section titled “What you get”Automated control planes
The platform provisions and operates the API server, etcd, scheduler, and controllers. There’s no control-plane infrastructure for you to run.
Provisioning, upgrades & lifecycle
Clusters are created automatically; Kubernetes and OS upgrades, scaling, and hibernation are handled for you.
Multi-cluster management
Run one cluster or a fleet — prod, staging, and throwaway labs — from a single place, the same way every time.
Bring your own Hetzner account
Your nodes, load balancers, and volumes live in your own Hetzner Cloud project, billed to you directly.
Node preservation on upgrades
Adopted servers are rebuilt in place and never deleted, so the instance — and its grandfathered price — survives every roll.
No control plane to operate
No etcd backups, no certificate rotation, no upgrade nights. You get a kubeconfig; we keep the platform healthy.
Your servers, your price
Keep the rate you already have
paasbox adopts the Hetzner servers you already run and preserves them in place. On every upgrade, autoscale, or node failure the instance is rebuilt — never deleted and re-ordered — so the grandfathered price you locked in before 15 June 2026 stays with it.
- Your existing Hetzner servers — no rebuild, no migration, no replacing hardware you already run
- Your current Hetzner pricing — preserved cluster operation after cluster operation
- Full cluster-admin access — a real admin kubeconfig, not a locked-down console
- Full control over your workloads — deploy with kubectl, Helm, or Flux; your namespaces and RBAC stay yours
Proven in production
PAASBOX is built with Gardener, the open-source Kubernetes-cluster manager from SAP, the same fleet technology behind SAP’s own Kubernetes service.
How it works
A control plane you never operate
Your cluster’s control plane runs as managed pods the platform operates for you — API server, etcd, scheduler, controllers — while your worker nodes stay in your Hetzner project. You bring your own Hetzner account; the platform provisions and operates the cluster and hands you a kubeconfig.
- No etcd backups, no certificate rotation, no upgrade nights
- Provisioning, upgrades, scaling & hibernation are handled for you
- One cluster or a fleet — prod, staging, throwaway labs — managed the same way every time
- Your nodes, load balancers & volumes live in your own Hetzner Cloud account
Who it’s for
Section titled “Who it’s for”The grandfathered incumbent
Already runs workloads on pre-increase Hetzner servers, faces the hike, and wants a managed Kubernetes platform without losing the rate.
The cost-pressed self-hoster
Runs k3s or kubeadm by hand, is tired of patching control planes, and wants mature cluster lifecycle at Hetzner prices.
The spiky workload
Wants a cheap grandfathered baseline plus burst to on-demand nodes that scale to zero — without managing two systems.
What would you save?
Section titled “What would you save?”€99 per cluster per month — or $129. Flat, fair-use. No per-node fees, no user limits, no hidden costs. Your Hetzner bill for your own nodes is separate — and stays at your grandfathered rate. See pricing & fair-use →
What would you save?
Tell us the pre-increase Hetzner servers you'd keep on their grandfathered rate.
Estimates in euro, gross (incl. 19% VAT), for one cluster. paasbox is €99 / cluster / month excl. VAT — VAT-registered businesses reclaim VAT, so net figures are roughly these ÷ 1.19. “Savings” is the price increase you avoid by keeping your servers on their grandfathered rate — not your total infrastructure cost. Your Hetzner bill for the nodes themselves is separate and paid to Hetzner, and an idle node still bills. Prices: Hetzner list, 2026-06-15.