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

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it whenever Hetzner comes up, as the best look inside their unusual, semi-custom and low-cost data center setup.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

der8auer EN

Topic

data center tour

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• There has been a nice YT video recently showing how Hetzner operates their DC and their servers: [VIDEO] Was quite surprised that they use custom built server racks with their own custom-made mainboards delivered by OEMs. They even have their own long-term Fan testing rigs …

• Their buildings are passively cooled so this sounds quite plausible. Pretty fun video showing the realities of their setup [VIDEO]

• There's a great YouTube tour of one of their data centres here: [VIDEO] 'Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)' The channel is well worth a subscribe too.