Hetzner Price Adjustment • Hacker News Board

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by noodlesUK » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #35

noodlesUK wrote: post #15

This is such disappointing news. I was planning on migrating some of our workloads to hetzner specifically to take advantage of the AX162 pricing which was incredibly competitive. Does anyone else have any suggestions for competitive pricing for this kind of thing (e.g. batch jobs)? Was this applied retrospectively to existing customers?

>Was this applied retrospectively to existing customers They are quite good at costs remaining predictable. However, a few years back they cut the low-end hosts 1Gbps unlimited data transfer down to a 20GiB/month cap, and wanted everyone to go full cloud/retard to fully leverage the hardware infrastructure. If you serve large files, a CDN may have a very narrow use case where the budgets make sense. If you are alread…

> If you serve large files, a CDN may have a very narrow use case where the budgets make sense. If you are already pushing 23 TiB/month, than cloud providers are usually not work the effort. Some rent colocation rack space. =3

Unfortunately I'm needing to run a lot of batch compute jobs (for which the hyperscalers are just insanely expensive - even to have a machine that outclasses a nice laptop becomes silly very rapidly)

I'm considering buying some machines and racking them in a colo but it feels like buying right now is also insane because of current pricing.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by eugenekolo » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

It really is an absolute massive jump. Have no clue what's going on in the back to warrant a 3x increase... 25-50%, sure.. but 3x is wild.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by conradfr » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

I see that (new) EX44 servers are now 50% more expensive than before, ouch. Although there's none available anyway.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by gchamonlive » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

zsoltkacsandi wrote: post #17

Correct me if I am wrong, but AI made software development and operations more expensive than before. Yes, it is faster too, but the question: is it worth the price? Can the users consume new features in that pace?

> is faster too, but the question: is it worth the price?

Those aren't the only metrics, quality and efficiency is also important. AIslop is of higher quality than devslop on average.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by TkTech » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

This continuing trend is going to do a fantastic job of ensuring fewer and fewer individuals can launch casual projects and gating (non-VC) startups to those who already have the means.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by mort96 » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

theturtletalks wrote: post #40

I was signing up for Hetzner years ago and it asked me to upload my passport to use their service. At that same time, I was reading about this story about WireCard. It was like Stripe for Europe and worth billions. Turns out it was run by a Russian spy network and was all a sham. That video alleged Germany’s bureaucracy is filled with Russian agents and this can be traced back to the East/West Berlin days. To save a…

I was doing the same here, trying to set up a Hertzner account. Getting away from US companies and buying European and all that. But after I had made the account (and wasting a lot of time on back and forth with their buggy sign-up flow), I got told that I needed to upload a picture of my passport to do anything.

Fuck no. I too decided to stick with DO.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by pelagicAustral » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

For EU-based ops I moved to UpCloud, they have top customer service and their offerings are far more complete than Hetzner... Plus, they have more zones.

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by mhkool » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

jonatron wrote: post #30

noodlesUK wrote: post #15

This is such disappointing news. I was planning on migrating some of our workloads to hetzner specifically to take advantage of the AX162 pricing which was incredibly competitive. Does anyone else have any suggestions for competitive pricing for this kind of thing (e.g. batch jobs)? Was this applied retrospectively to existing customers?

From memory, OVH and Scaleway are similar to Hetzner

OVH is more expensive

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by king_zee » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

I hope this doesn't hit the other servers, did they announce anything on why this increase happened? I would hate to need to move elsewhere

Re: Hetzner Price Adjustment

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Post by Capricorn2481 » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

motbus3 wrote: post #16

binarymax wrote: post #14

This is just the reality of hardware costs now. RAM and Disk are scarce, prices have skyrocketed. I wonder how much leverage the hyperscalers like AWS/GCP/Azure have on their own supply chain to keep costs level in their clouds.

True but this is probably because now they have much more demand as other competitors got to expensive and now people are going for the smaller ones even with low service levels

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.