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Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by esskay »

nine_k wrote: post #212
esskay wrote: post #211

Getting close to losing any point of them existing. They were the cheap one. You take that away and their unique offering vanishes and makes them pretty pointless to even consider as a provider. Really hope they can sort out something for their hardware sourcing as this isn't sustainable.

The above assumes that other providers will not do their own adjustments.

This is Hetzner's third increase this year. Not seeing any sort of similar levels of recurring price hikes from the other big vps providers.

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Post by rvnx »

pocksuppet wrote: post #227
oasisbob wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Egress pricing? That's one of their highest margin products! Compute is the one that's being squeezed!

It's almost 100% profit actually, because ISPs are willing to pay to be connected to Google network

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Post by xdennis »

ryandvm wrote: post #280

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> When exactly are the upsides going to hit?

Never. At this point I think the only way out is a Sea Peoples[1] level of collapse. Maybe they'll call it the Late Chip Age collapse. People will not put with with being obsoleted. Americans at least have the means to resist. The rest of us will probably need 3D printers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

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Post by sylos »

neonstatic wrote: post #300
ryandvm wrote: post #280

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Well, it's a mania, it's stupid now and it will correct itself. There will be pain. There's always pain after stupidity. Then we will see if LLMs are as useful as we were told.

The only correction will be anyone not in the concentrated wealth part being left out to rot. There is no upside for pretty much anyone posting on hacker news

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Post by declan_roberts »

I built a new computer with lots of RAM and a nice NVMe drive about a year ago, and I feel like I hit the jackpot with timing.

But just like a low-interest rate mortgage, I'm going to be stuck with this thing for a long time, it seems.

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Post by illiac786 »

sylos wrote: post #314
neonstatic wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's a mania, it's stupid now and it will correct itself. There will be pain. There's always pain after stupidity. Then we will see if LLMs are as useful as we were told.

The only correction will be anyone not in the concentrated wealth part being left out to rot. There is no upside for pretty much anyone posting on hacker news

That’s not correction though, that’s perpetuation or acceleration of last 40 years‘ trend.

Not that I disagree otherwise though.

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Post by Aachen »

alfanick wrote: post #66
avian wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope it stays like that for a while, but I suspect it won't. Advertised prices for my setup are now roughly 2x what I'm currently paying.

Seems the driver is DDR5 memory, DDR4 servers are not affected from my quick look.

That'd be nice. The only server I can't host at home is basically just ferrying bytes to and fro, to have the right IP address for email deliverability. I'd buy DDR0.5 and a Pentium 2 if they'd offer it

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Post by re-thc »

justincormack wrote: post #268
oasisbob wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Graviton 5 is 9% more expensive than previous generation https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/06/11/gravito... which isnt strictly an increase but shows direction.

Graviton has had a price increase nearly every generation. So not really related.

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Post by sillysaurusx »

colechristensen wrote: post #296
ryandvm wrote: post #280

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Personally, I can do more than I could before as the result of AI. Honestly I could "retire" to a senior level role and have AI do 90% of my work and nobody would know the difference. The benefits COULD hit by employers reducing everybody's hours. The blocker to this is the middle management disease where there's a class of people who spend 40+ hours a week in some kind of update meeting or another and that much talk…

Doesn't that mean your org could find someone 10% as productive as you and fire you? We seem to ignore that side of things.

Concretely: if you can do 90% of your work with AI, someone else can also do that same work, making you interchangeable unless that 10% is really important.

I think this is partly why it's so hard for people to find jobs right now. Everyone is interchangeable thanks to AI, so skill gives you less of an edge than it did in the past.

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