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Hetzner
Hetzner is a German cloud provider popular with developers for its competitive pricing on dedicated servers, VPS, and object storage in Europe.
What is Hetzner?
Is Hetzner down? Hetzner Online GmbH is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider founded in 1997 and headquartered in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, Germany. Known for offering high-performance dedicated servers, cloud virtual machines, and storage solutions at exceptionally competitive prices, Hetzner has grown from a European hosting staple into a major cloud provider with data centers in Germany, Finland, and the United States. Any outage or server issues at Hetzner affects countless businesses and developers who host critical applications on its infrastructure.
Hetzner's infrastructure includes its flagship Hetzner Cloud platform — offering IaaS compute, load balancers, managed databases, object storage, and firewalls through a REST API — alongside its Robot platform for dedicated root server management. The combination of affordable pricing and solid performance has made Hetzner particularly popular among European startups, open-source projects, and self-hosted application communities. Data center incidents can take large numbers of both physical servers and cloud VMs offline simultaneously.
When Hetzner is down or not working, users commonly report cloud VMs becoming unreachable over SSH or HTTP, the Hetzner Cloud Console at console.hetzner.cloud failing to load or returning API errors, the Robot portal for dedicated servers being inaccessible, Hetzner Object Storage returning S3-compatible API failures, load balancers dropping connections, automated backups failing to complete, and DNS resolution for Hetzner-hosted domains degrading.
Track Hetzner server status and outage reports in real time on Outage.gg. If Hetzner is not working, check the live Hetzner status page to see if others are affected and get notified the moment Hetzner is back online.
Common Hetzner Problems
Issues users most frequently report when Hetzner is having problems.
Service unavailability
API calls are failing, dashboards are unreachable, or the service is returning 5xx errors.
Slow performance / high latency
Response times are significantly above normal, causing timeouts and degraded user experience.
Authentication failures
API keys, OAuth tokens, or SSO logins are being rejected unexpectedly.
Data sync & storage issues
Files, databases, or synced data are not updating, missing, or inaccessible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Hetzner outages and server status.
You can check the live Hetzner server status at outage.gg/services/hetzner. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
Hetzner can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/hetzner and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the Hetzner status page at outage.gg/services/hetzner. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment Hetzner comes back online — no app download required.
Many services maintain official status pages with planned maintenance notices. Outage.gg aggregates real-time community-reported outages which often surface faster than official channels.
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