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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 capitol_ »

stavros wrote: post #119
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.

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.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by gck1 »

This is likely just the first wave. If this component hoarding by AI continues, and it likely will, at some point, it will be just OpenAI and Anthropic who can afford to have compute.

This has affected SSDs first, then RAM, then HDD and it doesn't look like even HDD manufacturers are going to increase production. So unless groups of people suddenly learn how to manufacture all of this hardware and open factories quickly, it's going to be a very fun next few years.

People have been predicting SaaS will die for all the wrong reasons. It's not that anyone can ship a SaaS clone by prompting an AI, it's that nobody is going to have access to the hardware required.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by ReptileMan »

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 DOLD Mechatronik with shipping to Greece, Bulgaria or Romania vs the same thing from Aliexpress or Temu. Chinese costs are cheaper even if they have to fly here.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#125

Post by NoiseBert69 »

Betelbuddy wrote: post #120
jsheard wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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)?

2026 will be the year of Rust...

Due to lack of memory leaks which will stop increasing RAM prices?

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by sincerely »

stavros wrote: post #119
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.

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

Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by fifilura »

sincerely wrote: post #127
stavros wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Pretty sure they are implying that the actions of the current president/administration are causing people to re-evaluate US dependencies. I don't really understand the first half

I think in the first part they are implying that there are very few independent companies to turn to.

(I also prefer comments that are clear without insinuations).

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by gck1 »

NoiseBert69 wrote: post #125
Betelbuddy wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2026 will be the year of Rust...

Due to lack of memory leaks which will stop increasing RAM prices?

That, and also because rust compiler is a very good guardrail & feedback mechanism for AI. I made 3 little tools that I use for myself without knowing how to write a single rust line myself.
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