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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by embedding-shape »

rozenmd wrote: post #106
ozgune wrote: post #94

These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers. The price increase ratios are also different across product lines. * Cloud (VMs): 38% * Bare metal: 15% * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately) It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set high to discourage customers from adding more memory. AX102 (128 GB RAM) costs €124, AX162 (256 GB RAM) costs €244, but the 128 GB memor…

Have you seen the price of RAM recently?

AFAIK, it's been stabilizing lately at the current price, so at least it's not increasing anymore: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

By the same time next year the prices likely gone down, although maybe not to the pre-increase, but surely much lower than currently. Putting it in my calendar to revisit this comment in a year :)

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Post by piltdownman »

ReptileMan wrote: post #124

BuyFromEU is the funniest subreddit there is right now. Unintentionally but still entertaining. EU has managed to paint itself into unenviable corner. I can't buy from EU even thought I want to because for physical goods - cross country shipping costs are prohibitive and for digital - they are either subpar, more expensive or both. Try this as experiment - try to buy something like precision dowel pins from Poland or…

QC / Cheap Shipping / TEMU or AliX Pricing

Pick 2.

Not to mention that from July 1, 2026, the EU is abolishing the €150 duty-free threshold for non-EU shipments. This is specifically targeted at the flood of packages from marketplaces like Temu and Shein.

From July there will be a flat customs duty of €3 for small consignments. This fee applies per category. If your package contains items from different product groups (e.g., a shirt and a cable), you might pay the fee multiple times.

The Goal: To create fair competition for European retailers who can't compete with subsidized shipping and tax loopholes from massive non-EU sellers.

This will obviously have a knock-on effect for larger shipped items which are presumably subsidised at the bottom line by these parcels of fast-fashion and eWaste.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by embedding-shape »

dizhn wrote: post #136

They've only ever increased the ipv4 prices for already existing customers before if I am not mistaken. This is quite big. EDIT: It's not a huge increase for dedicated servers. I already can't find anything comparable for more than the increased end price. > AX51 (FSN1) € 63.10 € 64.99 > AX101 (FSN1) € 107.10 € 110.31

> They've only ever increased the ipv4 prices for already existing customers before if I am not mistaken

No, that's not true, they've done increases before, at least for VPSes only, I think that was 1 or 2 years ago or so?

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Post by alt227 »

citrin_ru wrote: post #85
dagi3d wrote: post #18

Why are they increasing the prices on already existing infrastructure? Is that a way to "subsidize" the new purchases?

I would expect a large provider like Hetzner to refresh hardware continuously - every year a fraction of old hardware is retired and replaced by new. Given price shock they could stop doing this but older hardware is less energy efficient and has limited life anyway.

But they cant refresh hardware already sold to customers can they?

So increasing prices on existing cutomer hardware is what, subsidising hardware refreshes elsewhere in the datacenter?

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Post by infecto »

Betelbuddy wrote: post #108

It seems we will run out of hardware by March? "Hard drives already sold out for this year" - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ai_blamed_again_as_ha... Time for an AI tax on the hyperscalers.

Why tax something that the market will figure out? This is normal and things will sort themself out.

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Post by lnsru »

Can anybody predict this craze? The classical memory manufacturers are not yet adding additional manufacturing capacity. They learned this hard way in the past. That means, the demand is here to stay for years without typical bubble burst. Is this a point where Chinese companies will rise worldwide?

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Post by throwaw12 »

jsheard wrote: post #114
Betelbuddy wrote: post #108

It seems we will run out of hardware by March? "Hard drives already sold out for this year" - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ai_blamed_again_as_ha... Time for an AI tax on the hyperscalers.

> It seems we will run out of hardware by March? What happens when an unstoppable force (building everything in Electron because hardware is cheap) meets an immovable object (oh no hardware is expensive now)?

consumer RAM is not what's creating shortage. Data centers doesn't run electron to train the model or for inference

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by g-mork »

rmoriz wrote: post #135
jacquesm wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is another factor at play here: EU hosting providers that are not owned lock, stock & barrel are few and far between and Hetzner has a very nice sales representative in the White House.

The strongest reaction of EU would be to subsidize RIPE small LIR fees to 0€ and embrace decentralization.

What would that achieve? Here, have 1.5% discount on your subnet purchase
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