What Happened When Hetzner Banned Solana Validators: 1,000 Nodes Taken Offline Overnight
For hundreds of Solana validators, November 2, 2022, began with an unresponsive node and a suspended server instance.
Germany-based Hetzner, a favorite of developers for its affordable pricing, began suspending Solana validators without warning or any breathing room. The Hetzner ban on Solana validators was not a targeted action against one operator or one network. More than 1,000 nodes went offline, accounting for about 40% of the network's active validators, and around 22% of the SOL staked on the network was paralyzed overnight.
The question ricocheting through Reddit, Stacker News, Discord, and every thread was the same: Where do we go now?
While the Solana network itself weathered the storm, the affected validators were disconnected rather than corrupted. That distinction is what kept the chain running — and nearly all the deactivated stake recovered within weeks. The broader industry largely moved on from the event. That collective amnesia was a...
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