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Why are they increasing the prices on already existing infrastructure? Is that a way to "subsidize" the new purchases?
My CCX13 (dedicated cores) went from 15€ to 20€ now. Looking at Netcup as alternative, more cores and more RAM for 12€ - anybody has experience with their root (kvm'ed) servers?
It's OK until you get into support troubles. I would say Scaleway/OVH might be better contender (but they are french hehehe).
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Please google "datacenter evaporative cooling" and then re-evaluate
Whoa: is this the only possible form of cooling? What if there were a cooler that somehow didn't evaporate water, you might even call it a "dry cooler" - that would be a sweet invention. This might even be required in areas where adiabatic cooling isn't effective (humid climates)!
I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging.
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> Well first of all, the CHIPS Act was not "axed", it is federal law passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House and Senate. It would take a complete reversal of congress to repeal it and it's still very popular among both parties. DOGE cut basically all staff from the CHIPS Program Office, congress passed the money but Trump is choosing to turn it into a slush-fund the admin spends on industrial polic…
Once again, where do you get your information from? The only thing that doesn't exist anymore is DOGE itself. https://wtop.com/government/2025/11/doge-quietly-disbands-8-...
Location/type, Average increase: Germany Dedi 14,1 % Finland Dedi 14,8 % USA VPS 30,9 % Singapore VPS 30,8 % Germany/Finland VPS 32,0 % Grand Average 23,8 %
The post seems to indicate this is just for VPSs, which doesn't seem true, the email I just received from Hetzner mentions price increases for dedicated servers too. The ones I'm affected by seemingly: Product -> previous price -> New price as of 1 April 2026 EX42-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.65 -> € 51.13 AX41 (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.22 AX41-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.18 Server Auction -> € 65.22 -> € 67.18 Still cheap…
I'm not particularly tied to Hetzner as an American using their Ashburn servers, so I figured maybe this price increase puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing. The pricing is still pretty heavily in Hetzner's favor though: the CCX23s that I use will be $39.99 USD after April 1, but the closest DO equivalent is $126 USD with a third of the disk space.
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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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.
The main benefit seems to be avoiding dealing with the US. A