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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
1. There's no meaningful European competition. 2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting. So they're leveraging for extra profits.
How long before we invent a currency pegged to compute cycles
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Sounds like hyperbole. Yes the world is connected yes we are seeing shortages, yes the market is imperfect and it lags but this is how things get fixed. Prices are sorted out, manufacturers make bets on long term capacity. Some will be losers, some will be winners.
My guess is that many of the current people saying "technology is over and no one will afford their own computer" might have been born after the previous shortages, so it's in reality their first shortage and they have no memories (nor interest reading about) the previous ones, that all eventually washed over, even if at those points there were also people claiming that "No one will have their own SSD in the future,…
... or their first bubble.
Server auction didn't change at all, the lowest price server is still around 33€.
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You're speaking like Hetzner is raising prices to fund Nvidia-laden datacenters, while in fact they're mostly providing cheap servers and their growth is mostly happening because of US admin's insanity. Memory is going up for everyone, dude. And the people moving to Hetzner aren't exiting US clouds to leave for chinese ones.
Look at Chinese smartphone brands: Xiaomi, OnePlus took their slice from Samsung. Same pattern will play out with RAM and SSD. In 3-5 years, it won't be 'Samsung' on the label, it'll be 'Li Tech' or equivalent. Western manufacturers ceded the market through strategic choice; Chinese companies are filling it systematically.
Server auction didn't change at all, the lowest price server is still around 33€.
Mine went from 36.30 EUR to 37.39 EUR, according to the e-mail that I got.
I'm actually very thankful that the Server Auction exists and lets some hardware be used like that, instead of becoming e-waste or something.
For what I get, those prices are more than reasonable. I feel a bit bad about the other prices that saw a way bigger of a hike.
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I would expect a large provider like Hetzner to refresh hardware continuously - every year a fraction of old hardware is retired and replaced by new. Given price shock they could stop doing this but older hardware is less energy efficient and has limited life anyway.
But they cant refresh hardware already sold to customers can they? So increasing prices on existing cutomer hardware is what, subsidising hardware refreshes elsewhere in the datacenter?