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

der8auer EN · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityComputer architecture & CPUs

What it is

Overclocker der8auer tours Hetzner's Falkenstein data center in Germany, showing custom racks, own mainboards, passively cooled servers and ATX-style cases on shelves.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Was quite surprised that they use custom built server racks with their own custom-made mainboards delivered by OEMs.”

    Shows custom racks, mainboards, fan and HDD testing

    littlecranky67, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA)”

  2. “Pretty fun video showing the realities of their setup”

    Shows the realities of their passively cooled setup

    dmw_ng, 2022-02 · Recommendation · in “Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price”

  3. “There's a great YouTube tour of one of their data centres here”

    Great tour of a Hetzner data centre

    trollied, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “Hetzner Launches Three New Dedicated Servers”

  4. “For a fascinatingly different take on how to build a datacenter”

    A different take on how to build a datacenter

    dpeckett, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it”

  5. “The best resource I know is a tour of one of their data centers.”

    Tour of a Hetzner data center with racks and server assembly

    wongarsu, 2024-02 · Recommendation · in “Hetzner GPU Server”

  6. “The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.”

    English der8auer video showing Hetzner's semi-custom hardware

    jsheard, 2025-11 · Recommendation · in “A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center”

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Topics: hetzner, data center, server hardware, custom racks, hosting

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