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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 dakolli »

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.

Because this perfect version of capitalism you think exists, doesn't.

We live in a world with markets dominated by cartels of tech companies who don't play by the rules. Every other industry that impacts society in a negative way typically pays some sort of specialized tax to offset that, I don't know why these tech oligarchs shouldn't have too. It's wild how people just want to let them do whatever they want.

Everyone says we need to deregulate tech, and certain industries to get ahead of China.. Isn't it funny how their largely government controlled economy (to a degree) is annihilating the west on all fronts economically. We need far more regulation.

China will defeat the West solely because it regulates its billionaires, not the other way around like we have it in the West. And I hope so, the world is rooting for you China.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by ozgune »

ed_mercer wrote: post #152
ozgune wrote: 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) I don’t see this anywhere, source?

I used Hetzner's pricing calculator.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax162-r/configu...

Before today, we used to be able to order an AX162-R for €207 and add 128 GB of RAM for €46. Starting today, the same calculator provides €207 for an AX162-R (*) and €264 for the 128 GB RAM add-on. Sadly, HN doesn't let me upload screenshots.

(*) The price change for AX162-R machines is effective starting April 1st.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by ffsm8 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #158
ed_mercer wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately) I don’t see this anywhere, source?

Yeah, not sure where they're getting those from. From the Robot UI, I tried ordering a new EX44 or EX63: - EX63 comes with 64 GB DDR5 by default, can be upgraded to 192 GB DDR5 ECC for added €42.35 - EX44 comes with 64 GB by default, can be upgraded to 128 GB DDR4 Non-ECC for added € 16.94 max. per month

> These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers.

Checking today doesn't really indicate anything.

It's worth noting that the hardware price of RAM is up at least 550% yoy, so this was always going to happen as soon as their existing contracts had to be renewed

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by embedding-shape »

ffsm8 wrote: post #166
embedding-shape wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, not sure where they're getting those from. From the Robot UI, I tried ordering a new EX44 or EX63: - EX63 comes with 64 GB DDR5 by default, can be upgraded to 192 GB DDR5 ECC for added €42.35 - EX44 comes with 64 GB by default, can be upgraded to 128 GB DDR4 Non-ECC for added € 16.94 max. per month

> These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers. Checking today doesn't really indicate anything. It's worth noting that the hardware price of RAM is up at least 550% yoy, so this was always going to happen as soon as their existing contracts had to be renewed

> > These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers.

I thought the "effective immediately" mean that April 1st threshold wasn't for the memory...

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by Macha »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #151

... more customers so they must increase prices? This seems backwards from how scale usually works.

The next set of hardware purchases will cost more than their last set of hardware purchases, and that's going to outweigh any labour economies of scale given just how many hardware components are in shortage this year.

If their growth had been in their projections in say 2024, they might have just been able to skip a round of hardware purchases, but the combination of growth meaning they must expand their hardware and hardware costs made this inevitable.

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