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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by gck1 »

infecto wrote: post #145
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.

We see that market is very irrational now and it can stay irrational for long enough to destroy everything we know in tech.

By the time market figures things out, you may no longer have services, and hardware that you use daily. When such amounts of stupid money are pumped into a single industry, even if all AI companies went out of business tomorrow, it's going to take years for things to go back to normal.

FWIW, I'm not advocating taxes, as I think that won't really do anything. I don't know what the solution is either.

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Post by okanat »

capitol_ wrote: post #121
stavros wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you expound on that? I'm not sure I get what you're implying.

That Trump makes us very motivated to stop relying on American tech.

This doesn't solve the issue that globalism caused. Europe doesn't make DRAM nor has the know-how to quickly bring factories online which usually take 10+ years.

We are tied to American economy and if AI companies start driving prices up not only DRAM but basically everything will become more expensive.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by mikkupikku »

hiuioejfjkf wrote: post #72
joe_mamba wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It always bursts when demand stops. Current demand is artificially pumped up and financially unsustainable aka a bubble,

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All exponential growth curves are actually S curves, before the inflection point.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by dizhn »

embedding-shape wrote: post #143
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?

You might be right. Sorry. I should have said they haven't increased prices for existing dedicated servers since my direct experince is only there. Actually until about 3-4 years ago when the whole world went to shit, using a server for a year or two then upgrading to a better server for cheaper, was the norm. In that environment, you would naturally not have price increases.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by keepamovin »

Wow. That sucks. hcloud was great for ages and highly competitively priced.

Vultr may be a good alternative. If you want to search VPS prices across the 6 major clouds (gcloud, aws-cli, hcloud, az, doctl, and vultr-cli) I made a wrapper TUI that lets you search, sort, and rent VPS.

See it here: https://tui.bluedot.ink

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by Havoc »

antonyh wrote: post #113
Havoc wrote: post #90

This comes after OVH sent emails with really spicy increases too. Like north of 50

I got no such email, was this for VPS or dedicated servers?

Not sure which products but Reddit etc was in uproar

https://www.reddit.com/r/OVHcloud/comments/1ra5jzg/ovh_doubl...

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Post by retired »

piltdownman wrote: post #142
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 group…

As someone that frequently buys low-cost second hand electronics from Japan, I am a little frustrated about the €3 per-category customs duty. That means a €80 package of various old game cartridges, retro handhelds, digital watches and collectables will now have another €12 to €24 on top of the 21% VAT and €6 handling fee. For an €80 package I am now looking at €15 for shipping and €34 to €46 in import cost. That kills a fun hobby.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by Forgeties79 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #141
rozenmd wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

Stabilized at 5x (or more), a change that occurred over like 3mo.

Grocery prices have also stabilized but I’m still paying too much ha

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by fullstop »

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)?

I guess we have to get creative again.
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