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description Deploy Trellis WordPress sites to Hetzner Cloud servers. Create servers, configure settings, and automate WordPress deployment to Hetzner Cloud.
title Deploying Trellis to Hetzner Cloud
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Deploying Trellis to Hetzner Cloud

Hetzner Cloud is a cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual servers with competitive pricing that can handle most normal WordPress sites when provisioned with Trellis.

::: tip ℹ️ Sign up for Hetzner Cloud through the Roots referral link to receive $20 in cloud credits. :::

Creating a new server

Trellis CLI comes with a trellis server create command to automatically create and provision a server for a specified environment:

$ trellis server create --provider=hetzner production

::: warning This command requires a Hetzner API token. :::

If the HCLOUD_TOKEN environment variable is not set, the command will prompt for one.

To avoid passing --provider every time, set Hetzner as your default provider in trellis.cli.yml:

server:
  provider: hetzner

Then you can simply run:

$ trellis server create production

Quick start (region and size will be prompted)

$ trellis server create production

The remote server playbook will run and provision your server with PHP, Nginx, and everything else included in Trellis.

Additional options

The command help file can be accessed by passing the --help flag:

$ trellis server create --help

Changes made after running the command

After creating a new server, your local project will have a modified hosts file for the environment that you provisioned:

[production]
-your_server_hostname
+49.13.25.100

[web]
-your_server_hostname
+49.13.25.100

Deploying

Once your server is provisioned you'll want to perform the first deploy. If you try to visit your site before deploying you'll see a server 500 error.

$ trellis deploy production

After the first deploy is done, you can now either install WordPress by visiting the site or even import an existing database.