# Hetzner experiences **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Tags:** hosting\ **Created:** [December 17, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hetzner-experiences/54430 "2016-12-17T16:37:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hetzner-experiences/54430/16 "2017-08-13T19:43:38Z")
[Hetzner’s CX servers](https://www.hetzner.de/virtual-server) include at least one Snapshopt for free, which is great, and it just takes a few seconds to create one. But they issue this warning: > Power off your vServer before taking a snapshot to ensure data consistency. If you take a snapshot of a running vServer, data in the memory cannot be saved. To restore a snapshot, the vServer must be switched off. Can someone translate what this means for discourse (and, Wordpress, for that matter)? I understand that if I take a Snapshot only includes whatever is saved to the disk, but does it matter that I don’t get what was in RAM (and swap?)? Or _when_ does it matter? BTW: have you seen the revamped Hetzner-website? Was about time 😉 Now, I hope, the next redesign will be the beautiful backend… I’ll post a screenshot here, so we can compare before and after ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/b/1bc8457fb582d7e08f2757a4451f457b5edc0c2c.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hetzner-experiences/54430)._