Dedicated is a whole machine: no noisy neighbor, and you pay for it even when idle. Hetzner EX/AX/PX, OVH dedicated, and CIS dedicated lines live here. Cloud VPS (CX, Droplets, Nanode) does not.
Do not compare a CX23 to a dedicated by monthly price alone. Dedicated wins on disk, CPU cache and isolation. VPS wins on minutes-to-boot and hourly cancel.
If you are still sizing a first project, start with VPS. Come here when a single VM is the bottleneck or compliance wants a box nobody else shares.
Straight answers about ranking methodology, pricing and choosing the right plan.
VPS is a slice of a host. Dedicated is the host. You want dedicated for isolation, lots of disk, or software that forbids multi-tenant CPUs.
No. CX/CPX/CCX are cloud VPS. Hetzner dedicated is a different product line in this ranking.
Cloud VPS is minutes. Dedicated can be minutes (in-stock SKUs) or days. Check the provider, not this H1.
Yes. Same OS images, rsync or snapshots out. The ranking split exists so prices stay comparable.