Hetzner Price Adjustment • Hacker News Board

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by stephenhuey » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

snarfy wrote: post #75

stephenhuey wrote: post #26

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Inching closer to Vultr prices. There are some Rails projects I might have later this year, and I had already been thinking of putting them onto Vultr via Hatchbox since Vultr offered a managed db. Maybe for some stuff that I can run a Rails 8 Solid Stack app with just sqlite, I'd use Hetzner. I tested both with Hatchbox but have nothing in production on either yet and generally use Heroku and Render still. Has anyon…

When I used them the main issue was latency spikes due to their IP ranges getting DDoSd. They host a lot of shady/spam sites.

Oh, didn't realize that. Any recommendation for mitigating that if deployed there? Had thought about putting something on Vultr in a few months. Also open to any other good recommendations for providers that have a managed Postgres.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by Neywiny » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:22 PM UTC

dns_snek wrote: post #10

djxfade wrote: post #4

Anyone know why? Some of the tiers more than doubled in price, that's pretty insane.

RAM prices, surely?

Was looking into a ram upgrade and the kit is 4x what it was even a year ago. I'm with you on this one

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by energy123 » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #150

Similar providers (heroku, aws) haven't increased their compute/ram/ec2/dyno prices recently; why is Hetzner's increase so massive (> 3-4x) - wouldn't increased hardware costs affect everyone else too?

Step change makes sense for a smaller provider. You bait people to build on top of you with the best prices, then rug pull and hope the switching costs and economic frictions delay the attrition.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by dartharva » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

ulfw wrote: post #81

Everything is getting stupider by the day. Tech is killing itself until this idiotic bubble bursts. Then we'll be in a decade of drought again like 2001

What do you mean by "decade of drought"? In most accounts the 2000s were the absolute best years for rapidly emerging and fun tech.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by da02 » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

FpUser wrote: post #129

The solution I think is to tell all of them starting with clouds to go fuck themselves (where possible of course) and start self hosting. I do this for years and am totally happy. I was also hosting on Hetzner and was thinking to do it again for some (not all) services but not with this new wonderful deal.

Other than the price increases, any issues with Hetzner? Any alternatives you would recommend?

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by Aissen » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #150

Similar providers (heroku, aws) haven't increased their compute/ram/ec2/dyno prices recently; why is Hetzner's increase so massive (> 3-4x) - wouldn't increased hardware costs affect everyone else too?

Yes, and they will to preserve margins at some point. They're just doing a huge Mexican standoff, waiting for others to move. All smaller clouds have raised some prices already.

They'll probably wait for summer, the world cup finals, or whatever's last big US government thing is so it flies under the radar.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by elAhmo » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

Aldipower wrote: post #147

And the worst for my setup, there is no more ECC RAM available in their offers. At least not unless you pay an insane amount of cash..

Is ECC RAM that much valuable in day to day for non-critical usages?

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by re-thc » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

harrall wrote: post #70

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #50

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I don't think any VPS provider has come close to raising their prices this much. There's absolutely not enough people flocking to Hetzner to justify this.

But VPS providers share the same hardware and overprovision. They don’t need to add new hardware every time a new customer signs up. If you buy a dedicated server at Hetzner, you actually need immediate hardware. Many VPS providers also just resell Hetzner, OVH or other dedicated servers so they won’t increase the price until their own provider does.

> But VPS providers share the same hardware and overprovision.

Hetzner has a "cloud" offering. The price increases aren't small either.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by ranger_danger » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #140

oasisbob wrote: post #71

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Been wondering the same. GCP recently increased their egress pricing, and was expecting AWS to follow. So far, haven't seen any other notable cloud price increases. Thought for sure they'd be reevaluating by now, I'm surprised to see the stability.

We increased our prices - for the first time in 21 years - last week. The increase was 25% and was, of course, mainly due to hard drive prices.

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Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by BadBadJellyBean » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

markvdb wrote: post #69

jonatron wrote: post #30

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From memory, OVH and Scaleway are similar to Hetzner

Hetzner is actually somewhat reliable, and OVH is not.

I know that they had a huge oopsie with their wooden datacenter burning down but apart from that I didn't notice any problems recently.