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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 clouedoc »

jbb67 wrote: post #554
embedding-shape wrote: post #91

The post seems to indicate this is just for VPSs, which doesn't seem true, the email I just received from Hetzner mentions price increases for dedicated servers too. The ones I'm affected by seemingly: Product -> previous price -> New price as of 1 April 2026 EX42-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.65 -> € 51.13 AX41 (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.22 AX41-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.18 Server Auction -> € 65.22 -> € 67.18 Still cheap…

Yes, my dedicated server is going up by 3% this year. That doesn't seem bad at all. It's still cheap!

Same. This price increases is making me think about switching all the workload that I have on Hetzner Cloud into dedicated auctions server.

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Post by jandrese »

bootsmann wrote: post #99

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.

I kinda miss the days of the crazy housing bubble back in late 2000s, at least that bubble didn't affect my daily life.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by dylan604 »

data-ottawa wrote: post #458
Nextgrid wrote: post #446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your ISP will cut your account when you saturate the upstream pipe 24/7 for weeks on end... which will only happen if you host video. And your home insurance will not know/care if you're operating a desktop-sized computer or even a single server (it is perfectly fine and expected a developer might bring an actual server home for troubleshooting). Home insurance only cares if you're running dozens of them.

It depends. If you're running a business from home is where my local insurance draws the line and you need additional professional insurance. You should be able to do this hassle free, and you probably can get away with it, but you may find yourself in a grey area later. It's just one of many types of red tape that stiffles innovation.

That's a tricky one. Is working from home considered running a business? What if you have formed an LLC that you work for and your company is the one hired? That's technically a business running from your address, yet is nothing different than what would be considered WFH.

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Post by blibble »

bayindirh wrote: post #208
throwaw12 wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

consumer RAM is not what's creating shortage. Data centers doesn't run electron to train the model or for inference

Every RAM producer is stopping their consumer grade RAM production to provide ECC-RAM and VRAM now. Micron discontinued and closed down Crucial brand as a whole. So, getting systems with higher RAM capacity is getting harder (from laptops to smartphones). So, for a couple of years, we need to stop using Electron so much and use what we have efficiently. Data centers, esp. AI hyperscalers do not care about efficiency…

ECC ram uses the same chips, just an extra one on the dimm

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Post by jbxntuehineoh »

echelon wrote: post #20
joe_mamba wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI bubble won't last forever when a lot of compute is burned at a loss just so people can generate AI videos of sharks driving cars for social media shorts. It will burst at some point, at which HW manufacturing will have to lower prices if they still want to have enough sales to stay in business, since most of their current sales boom comes from HW they haven't even made yet. OpenAI can't keep losing investor money…

I really don't think so. I feel like we're at a takeoff. Senior engineers using AI coding are 10x more productive. My output has jumped dramatically. I'm a senior engineer and built six nines, active-active systems that moved billions of dollars a day. I am absolutely a beast with these models. I can replace an entire team just by myself. I'm literally shipping an entire week of features in half a day. I'm reviewing…

> I'm thoroughly reviewing a week's worth of code in (less than) half a day

no you aren't lmfao

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Post by lima »

jsheard wrote: post #114
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.

> 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)?

Everything gets more expensive?

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by dewey »

miohtama wrote: post #571

For alternative European providers, I recommend OVH. Some euros pricier, but good.

I've been on OVH forever, but recently switched to Hetzner as OVH doesn't have their equivalent of their auction servers which are great if you are looking for combinations of SSD + HDD servers. These don't really exist at OVH unless you pay > 200 euro / month.

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by bityard »

jandrese wrote: post #602
bootsmann wrote: post #99

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.

I kinda miss the days of the crazy housing bubble back in late 2000s, at least that bubble didn't affect my daily life.

Count yourself lucky! I took a new job in another city just as the bubble hit and had a 3 hour round-trip commute for a year and a half due to that mess. We literally couldn't afford to sell our house because we were underwater on the mortgage. (Would have had to bring more money to the table than we had in savings.) And because of that we also missed a lot of great deals in the destination city as well and had to settle for a house in the suburbs that we weren't thrilled with but fit our budget.

I shouldn't complain too much, lots of people had it far worse. Millions lost their homes (and their downpayments) altogether and took over a decade to recover, if they ever did.

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Post by riku_iki »

UltraSane wrote: post #251
jsheard wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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)?

Stop using Electron to save massive amounts of RAM.

its not easy choice if you want mature crossplatform UI framework.
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