Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

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jsheard · 2025-11 · Recommendation

Der8auer did some similar videos a few years ago, but in English: [VIDEO] [LINK] The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.

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wongarsu · 2024-02 · Recommendation

The best resource I know is a tour of one of their data centers. Around minute 6 you get some nice views on their current-gen racks, and later in the video you see the back side, followed by the assembly of the servers. [VIDEO]

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dpeckett · 2023-07 · Recommendation

Couldn't agree more, I think Hetzner is probably Europe's best bet on a hyperscaler. One of the more telling indicators IMO is their growing market share outside of the EU/DACH. To add on to the comments about Hetzner building their own custom hardware, they also custom built their own software stack. They rejected the hype that was OpenStack and worked diligently on their own hypervisor platform (that they are incredibly secretive about) and that appears to be paying off in spades for them. Most sovereign cloud plays end up being suffocated by the complexity, and incoherence, of the OpenStack ecosystem. It just becomes impossible to ship. I know Hetzner is working like crazy on a managed Kubernetes offering atm, I think when that lands it could be very interesting. For a fascinatingly different take on how to build a datacenter: [VIDEO]

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