Hetzner Community Tutorial Credits

Overview

Hetzner's Community platform publishes technical tutorials and pays accepted authors in Hetzner Cloud credits. Contributors submit original tutorials about free and open-source software to the community-content repository on GitHub, where Hetzner reviews and publishes them.

Free Tier Quotas & Limits

According to Hetzner's official contribution guidelines:

• New tutorials are rewarded with up to EUR 50 in Hetzner Cloud credit, with the final amount depending on how detailed and in-depth the tutorial is.
• Major updates to existing tutorials are rewarded with about EUR 10 in credit; minor updates are not rewarded.
• To receive a credit, the author must have at least one invoice on their Hetzner account, so a paid account is required.
• Tutorials must be original content, must not be primarily or entirely AI-generated, and must cover free and open-source software topics.
• The credit is added to the contributor's account after a Community Manager confirms acceptance by email.

How to Get Started

1. Read the contribution guidelines and review existing tutorials.
2. Write an original tutorial and open a pull request against the hetzneronline/community-content repository.
3. After review and publication, respond to the Community Manager's email with your Hetzner account number so the credit can be applied.

Hetzner Cloud servers start at EUR 3.49/month, so a EUR 50 credit covers several months of a small instance. Note that Hetzner does not advertise a standing signup or referral credit for new Cloud accounts; this tutorial reward is the documented way to earn Cloud credits.