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Is he gone?

Yes.

Where is the bottom lever?

Okay, quickly check the GPU server.

Check if it's the latest model.

For years, everyone in my bus simulator or servers was asking me, Kai, why is our server so bitchy?

So I said fine, I'm hosting a new one.

And for this I'm going into the cloud.

But which cloud is the best?

Every man on Hacker News with the landing page and zero users told me the same cheat code.

Heads now.

It is so cheap it is basically stealing from Germans.

It is not in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt is so 2025.

The real ones go to Falkenstein, which is next to Plough, which is next to the A72 Ottomann, which is next to Regensburg, which is next to Munich,

Which is next to so I took my Bayern Munich scarf to get German street credit

and went over to get here I did seven hours Lufthansa business economy 12 hours train 50 minutes delay

300 minutes taxi and one night at a hotel with no AC

Almost got arrested like four times because I took one picture in a kebab shop my mission 20 megawatts

Zero credit checks watch out Silicon Valley the tech powerhouse Wokland is coming for you without speed limit Before we get started,

I wanna know one thing!

Hi, hello, nice to meet you.

Welcome.

Hi, Kaim and Em.

Hello, thank you for taking the time.

Come with me.

Do you have an ID?

ID?

Yeah, ID card.

I need to bring ID.

Yeah, sure.

Let me see.

That's not you.

It's official Nintendo Wii path.

I had to give my birth certificate for this.

But that's not a government license.

That looks more like it.

Understand?

Yeah, whatever.

Then we are good to go and we can start checking out our location.

We show our certificates for our customers.

We have the ISO 2701 for example, or the other certificates here.

Of course we have redundancy and yeah, you cannot access anywhere here or any room without a transponder.

Yeah, ISO.

D-norm.

D-norm, yes.

You guys in Germany are like this.

This way?

Yeah, of course.

Let's do it.

There is no food allowed here.

Oh, I cannot eat there?

No. It's not allowed.

Oh.

I will just leave it here for now, okay?

Yeah, just...

This is all drinks.

Yeah, for our...

For water cooling or...?

No, for our staff members.

Look, there's one plant in the data center.

Fanta.

When the GPUs come, all of this...

So now we are walking.

Do we have like cars to go there?

No, we always walk in German.

So you have to keep going?

Yeah, like 20 000 steps per day.

There's another door.

Is it like retina scan?

No, it's like a transponder.

It's another door.

We cannot like just drive outside.

We could, but that wouldn't be very general.

Maybe you should take off your jacket.

It would help you.

It's another door.

There's no faster way to go.

If you walk first it...

This is like the sixth door now already.

You don't have golf cards I can use here?

No. But if it's too much walking for you we can go inside a data center now.

Yo, before we get started I want to know one thing.

Are you SOC 2 compliant?

Temple of innovation.

It's a bit loud in here, can you turn the AC off?

No, you see those big air conditions,

it gets cooled down, goes through our raised floor and then goes into the racks, the cool air is rising up,

the server takes what he needs, the warm air comes outside like rises to the top and goes out of the ceilings.

Do you do water cooling for the GPUs?

No, we do not use any water cooling at the moment, we are cooling the GPUs with air. From outside?

Yeah, with those things here.

And that's enough, that's enough.

Germany must get very cold in here huh sometimes it's very cold

and rainy it's getting very warm

and maybe we should go inside that's a lot maybe yeah it's very hot

but it's louder let me open the door for you ah

a lot cooler yeah this is better yeah oh you're a

bayern fan you are a bayern fan of course yes most people are

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so these are just like axle machines or what do they do they are doing whatever you want.

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If I had just you know hypothetically 50 000 web sockets connections at a time yeah at like 3 p.m

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or whatever school ends yeah would these things hold up for it?

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Yeah but we need to move it to another rack where we have a bigger network bandwidth.

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Could you turn down the network bandwidth for the other customers for a few hours then?

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No I cannot.

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Everyone gets the same bandwidth.

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You share it.

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I just want to make sure I'm not tapping into hot lava here.

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What is your uptime?

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The network uptime for those servers you see here is 99.9%.

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What if a meteor hits?

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Then you probably need a geolocation redundancy and order two separate cloud servers or root servers.

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Then you are safe for media attacks.

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Here you see if you want to go inside our storage servers

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if you need to pick up a lot of pictures

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and videos for privacy reasons so

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if someone from outside of Germany holds a lot of data yeah is he eligible for German citizenship no what

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if it's like petabytes of data do a lot of people

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host their Minecraft servers here not Not on storage servers but on the others.

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We have also a lot of Minecraft servers.

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As Hetzner, what makes you stand out?

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What makes us stand out is our do-it-yourself mentality.

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We do not outsource anything.

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Also, the whole data center is constructed by us or designed by us.

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And as we do everything on our own, we can lower the prices and provide you cheaper servers with higher value.

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And what makes you not stand out?

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What makes us not stand out?

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That's a good question.

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Thank you.

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You know, you are famous in the world.

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You have a cult-like developer following on Hacker News.

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What would you like to say as a message to your fans out there?

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Yeah, thank you.

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If I want to get like 20 megawatts.

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That's a lot of service.

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Can I like rent it by tomorrow?

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No, not possible I think.

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Do you know what I'm trying to do?

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Do you want to know?

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Yeah, of course.

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Tell me.

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You want to scam kids I heard about?

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No. You know, you are like the promised land on Hacker News.

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Yeah.

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People say you don't market, you just work.

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They say Hetzner is practicality over hype.

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That's right because we...

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But I like hype.

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And a lot of air conditions in here.

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Yeah, we have like, I would say, 15 units here.

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It's still no eating here.

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It's just small.

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No, no eating.

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We have to go to a different room for that.

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Okay.

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Also, no vaping.

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Our fire...

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But it's not smoking, it's 95% better than smoking.

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I don't care, the fire detection will...

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Why not Frankfurt?

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Why here in.. what's this called?

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Falkenstein.

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Okay, whatever, yeah.

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Because here it is very cold, most of the time, and we have the possibility to grow.

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Like, around us only fields, but we have two redundant fiber optic cables to Frankfurt.

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So you have some in Frankfurt?

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The peering point is in Frankfurt.

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We don't have a data center in Frankfurt.

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What's your renewable energy percentage and...

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Why am I even asking this question? Who cares?

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Let's keep going.

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We have 100% renewable energy.

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100%.

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Is there lights in here?

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Where's like the metal piece?

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We do not need a metal piece.

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That's our own design.

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Looks a little bit, you know, it's like not my style, but it hasn't to be fancy it needs to work and that's a critical thing.

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But you cannot just put like some neon lights fan in here.

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We could do but I don't want to dance the whole night in the data center.

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But how much effort is it to set up a fresh Linux server?

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Like five minutes.

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Five minutes and the Linux server is done?

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Yeah we have a rescue system starting with the server, einmal Linux, or set up a raid, it depends on what you want.

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Also Windows.

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Windows?

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You can also install Windows on that, yeah.

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Install it, reboot the server, the server boots into the operating system.

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Firewall, I think would be nice.

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Tool which checks your locks.

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You can also open the SSH port for everyone.

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And after like 320 hours when I figured everything out, then the server is ready.

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The server is ready the whole time, yeah.

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Yeah, that's our tables for our data center technicians.

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Yeah, they sit here like...

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They sit here and work.

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Yeah, and talk with you via mail.

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What's the password?

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123. Will I have like ping zero here?

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If you stand right next to it, of course.

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So if I log in and I run like a quick COD session, I will have...

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To all the haters, we will have ping zero right here.

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Can I charge my phone real quick here?

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If you touch that, you are dead.

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But at least my laptop I can.

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No, we need to go somewhere else.

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Siri.

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What are the computer requirements for an eSports tournament server?

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I thought you know what to do.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's just, you know, sometimes I just want to check if the AI is still up to date.

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You know what I mean?

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Ah, okay, okay.

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Do I get a shock if I touch it?

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No, of course not.

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Bare metal. Is he gone?

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Yes.

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Where is the bodenheber?

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five aisles are connected to one sub user.

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What's the display saying?

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67. Why not the 100?

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Because if you're running always 100%, then the system failure is a lot higher.

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You can put like a desk and a chair and it's like a whole like another floor on here, you know?

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It's a perfect table, yeah, but we do not do it here.

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Okay, so what is this for below?

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Below it's for all of our cables which come to the aisle and for the cooling system.

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Where is the fresh air coming? From here?

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You feel it?

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Oh yeah, I feel it.

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Can I put the...

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There's still no eating allowed.

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We are in Germany, there are strict rules.

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Okay.

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Can you help me out? Because I'm...

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Okay.

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Ah, now I've solved.

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What's the SLA you said again I'm gonna get?

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The SLA's are only for cloud service.

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There you get 99.9% uptime.

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What happens the rest 0.01?

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Maintenance.

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Maintenance.

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No problem.

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What kind of redundancy do you have in the power supply?

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We have a UPS system, so in case the power gets cut for any reason for a data center,

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it switches to our battery system in milliseconds, so your eSports servers do not crash.

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Why they don't host eSports servers?

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Your other servers which do not host any eSports do not notice anything.

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But does the generator fail over time?

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Yeah, the diesel generator needs up like one or two minutes. In frames.

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And then the diesel generator takes over...

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Diesel generator...

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...gener...

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...generator takes over...

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You see?

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Pretty windy.

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Cold.

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Typical German weather.

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Yeah.

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Germany is generally very cold. Of course.

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Also socially.

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Yeah.

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Now we're going to the diesel generators.

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How many PS does this have?

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Postpare?

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Like more than a thousand.

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Okay.

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And this is in case the German power goes down a little bit.

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Does it ever go down?

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No. Why do you have these then?

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In case a meteor strikes.

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Or what is this?

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Toilet?

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It's a surveillance room.

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Ah, this is where you monitor the people in the data center?

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No, the diesel generator.

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Can I quickly switch it on?

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Why the barbed wire?

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Is this a prison or...?

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No, because we have our certificates and one states that we have to...

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close unwanted people out.

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What kind of people you want to keep out?

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Like robbers.

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What are they going to rob?

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Your data.

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Your service?

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They're gonna take the data.

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Of course they can.

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Is it worth a lot of money, taking the data?

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Is your eSports tournament worth a lot of money?

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It's not an eSports tournament.

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Oh, there's actually someone.

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Hello?

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Oh, they only speak German.

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Okay.

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Guten Tag.

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Guten Tag.

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Ich bringe.

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Gebt hier aus.

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Okay, they're calling the police.

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I need to subscribe for minimum or I can do, you know, go on a trial, cancel and all that?

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Our servers are hourly charged, so if you only need two hours, you only get charged for those two hours and not for the whole month.

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And then I can shut it down?

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You have to cancel this, not only shut it down.

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Okay.

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And then I have to again start?

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Correct.

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And install the Linux for 72 days?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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If you are not high EQ enough, maybe check out our cloud servers.

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They just click on I want any Linux server and within seconds you have it.

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No, I really know this stuff.

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I'm very into it.

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Okay.

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But how does it again work?

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Yeah, we test different cooling systems.

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This is not air conditioning here?

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No, no, it's a testing station.

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Okay, for fans.

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What fans?

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Those fans.

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Look, a bike.

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German quality.

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These are important people?

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No, everyone is important here at Hezner.

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But they are like management level or where?

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One is management level, yeah.

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The other is personal.

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Okay, who's the manager?

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Jobs.hezner.com apply.

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No, it's...

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I think it's career.hezner.com now.

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What do they get?

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Like holidays, 68 days?

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You get 30 days of holiday a year.

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Okay.

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When do they actually work then?

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At the other times.

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Okay, but no, they take like what, 200 days of sick leave in Germany?

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No, we do not have many sick days at the moment.

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Okay.

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Germany do not take sick days.

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We come here even if you are sick.

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Oh, the certificates.

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Again, our certificates, yeah.

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Do I get like one of the engineers to come by every now and then, do a quick checkup?

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No. What about Lufthansa miles?

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Also no Lufthansa miles.

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A lot of international customers have to host in Germany.

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Yeah.

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Because they want to be on neutral ground.

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Is this big business for you?

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It's also big business for us, yeah.

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How big business?

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Like big, big business or?

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Big business.

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What's the benefit for an international customer to host in Germany right now?

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The main benefit is the GDPR.

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Because we are compliant to that and following strict rules.

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I care about ping inequality.

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Diesel generator...

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Diesel generator takes over.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “I Go To The Cloud”. This video has 362 sentences and 2494 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:37. The speaker talks at a steady 142 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 99 of its 362 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
generator noun	/ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/	An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
diesel noun	/ˈdisəl/	A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when…
redundancy noun	/ɹɪˈdʌndən(t)si/	The state of being redundant.
uptime noun		The period of time a computer has functioned since last requiring a reboot.
bandwidth noun	/ˈbændwɪdθ/	The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
ping verb	/pɪŋ/	To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
install verb	/ɪnˈstɔl/	To connect, set up or prepare something for use
compliant adjective	/kəmˈplaɪənt/	Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
megawatt adjective		Exceptionally powerful, intense, or enormous in impact.
transponder noun	/tɹænˈspɑn.dɚ/	A radar or radio transceiver that transmits some signal in response to receiving a predetermined signal.
meteor noun	/ˈmiːtiɚ/	An atmospheric or meteorological phenomenon. These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors…
aisle noun	/aɪ̯l/	A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
rack noun	/ɹæk/	A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
renewable adjective	/ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/	Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
norm noun	/nɔːm/	That which is normal or typical.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
stand out verb		To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.).
take over verb		To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
go down verb		To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
cool down verb	/kuːl ˈdaʊn/	To become cooler; to be reduced in temperature.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
keep out verb		To refrain from entering a place or condition.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Do we have like cars to go there?
You don't have golf cards I can use here?
What makes us not stand out?
Can I like rent it by tomorrow?
Do you know what I'm trying to do?

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: technician /tɛkˈnɪʃən/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, detection /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/, citizenship /ˈsɪtɪzənʃɪp/
Long words — get the stress right: generator /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/, redundancy /ɹɪˈdʌndən(t)si/, millisecond /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/, simulator /ˈsɪmjəˌleɪtɚ/, mentality /mɛnˈtæləti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like generator, diesel, redundancy.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?