[stephenson]

As said other places, they have ECC servers to: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6

[hjalle]

I never meant to criticise, I saw that they have ECC-servers as well, I just wondered what the implications would be if running a database on a non ecc server, as I've never really understood how much damage it could cause.

[espennilsen]

Short answer: ECC will save you from having corrupt data written to your database if one of the DIMMs are corrupt.

[Arelius]

Or more importantly, if cosmic rays hit your data in the wrong way.