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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#131

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…

>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.

This is an awful experiment. Only consumers care about delivery costs on deliveries like these, and what you're looking at are explicitly not goods aimed at consumers.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2026 will be the year of Rust...

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

Because it's more memory efficient than most other languages. So you can achieve the same result with lower RAM requirements.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#133

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…

>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. This is an awful experiment. Only consumers care about delivery costs on deliveries like these, and what you're looking at are explicitly not goods aimed at consumers.

Okay. Then buy pizza oven from Italy and see how shipping costs are 60% of the price of the oven.

Anyway - you seems to misunderstand. If transporting something from Shenzhen to Franfurt is cheaper than transporting the same thing from Krakow to Thessaloniki - means that EU has fucked up royally in its main mission - to facilitate movement of goods. WE have ungodly patch of local carriers and courier companies and a lot of friction in every kind of intra eu goods movement.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#134
I really love that their notification email includes applicable price change for my specific servers.

The worst counter example of this was Mercedes sending me an email saying "the terms and conditions have been updated, please read them at this link". It linked to the 52 page document I was supposed to read through in its entirety and manually diff against previous! Good thing they started adding a change log in the emails after some customer push back.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#135

A significant part of this is probably just the hockey-stick growth in the price of memory we have seen in the past 6 months. Would be surprised if this wasn't impacting their bottom line for maintenance.

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.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#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

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#137

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)?

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Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#138

I really love that their notification email includes applicable price change for my specific servers. The worst counter example of this was Mercedes sending me an email saying "the terms and conditions have been updated, please read them at this link". It linked to the 52 page document I was supposed to read through in its entirety and manually diff against previous! Good thing they started adding a change log in the…

My ISP sends me an SMS telling me there's work being done in my area. I have 3 different accounts with them in different citites. No idea which one they are talking about at any given time.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

#139
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…

> * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately)

> It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set very high to discourage customers from adding more memory.

Memory prices are so stupid now that 575% is pretty close to their actual costs.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

DDR5-6000 2x32GB: ~$200 -> ~$1000

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