Datacenter intelligence record
Hetzner Online AS24940
Log or rate-limitHetzner Online · AS24940 · Hosting / VPS datacenter · DE
Datacenter
AS24940
Dedicated / VPS Hosting
DE
Confidence: High
- Provider
- Hetzner Online
- ASN
- AS24940
- Country
- DE
- Classification
- Datacenter Traffic
Handling Guidance
Log or rate-limit- Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
- Datacenter matches are network-origin signals, not bot identities. Use them with request paths, cadence, user-agent evidence, and customer rules.
- Browser-looking traffic from cloud, hosting, VPS, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
Record Details
Provider and network data- Provider
- Hetzner Online
- Organization
- Hetzner Online GmbH
- ASN
- AS24940
- ASN name
- HETZNER-AS
- Network
- HETZNER-AS
- Country
- DE
- Services
- Dedicated servers, cloud servers, colocation, high-volume automation sources
- Provider type
- Dedicated / VPS hosting
- Network type
- Hosting / VPS Datacenter
- Classification
- Datacenter Traffic
- Traffic label
- Datacenter
- Confidence
- High
- Risk
- Medium
- Default action
- Log
- Rules supported
- allow, block, rate-limit, log
- Last verified
- 2026-06-25
- Status
- Active
Detection and Behavior
Operational guidance- Common traffic pattern: Hetzner Online traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Detection notes: Match by ASN AS24940. Combine network identity with user-agent, path, rate, country, and rule outcomes before enforcement.
- Behavior thresholds: Flag when request volume, identical user-agent reuse, API/feed scraping, login probing, search abuse, or repeated non-human path traversal exceeds normal visitor behavior.
- Human monitoring relevance: Useful for separating datacenter-origin requests from real human visitor traffic. Agency human monitoring should not classify hosting/cloud requests as normal residential humans without additional signals.
- Recommended action: Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
Intelligence Summary
- Hetzner Online is tracked by Botcrawl as hosting / vps datacenter associated with AS24940. Traffic from this network should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
- Hetzner Online traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
Evidence and Source
- Primary source: https://www.hetzner.com/company/about/
- Secondary source: https://bgp.tools/as/24940
- Provider URL: https://www.hetzner.com/
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