Hetzner Price Adjustment

Post by chadgpt3 » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 11:51 AM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #275

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…

If they are spies, they are taking their time to use the data for sure. I run servers with them since 2009 or so. That's 17 years. I feel like the whole password thing was meant as a protection against SPAM or using servers for nefarious purposes as they know who's really behind every server. Although, I can also see how real criminals would work around that easily by supplying fake identities. Sounds like one of tho…

Post by esskay » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC

Aldipower wrote: post #616

esskay wrote: post #311

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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.

OVH suddenly seems cheap. :-P :-D

Post by tptacek » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 11:58 AM UTC

sieve wrote: post #568

tptacek wrote: post #481

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I'm thinking more about, like, my next door neighbors, who also don't care that my interlocutor had to turn off one of their hobby servers. That's OK, though, because they also think a Macbook Neo would cost $119 without the Apple tax, so I think we're at an impasse.

There are people running sites hosting old religious texts and hymns and a hundred other things that have nothing to do with programmers. A 4x jump in the bill for someone on limited income not gaining anything from it is not trivial. It results in the disappearance of a site that will not come back.

Post by tptacek » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 12:02 PM UTC

jrflowers wrote: post #591

tptacek wrote: post #481

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I'm thinking more about, like, my next door neighbors, who also don't care that my interlocutor had to turn off one of their hobby servers. That's OK, though, because they also think a Macbook Neo would cost $119 without the Apple tax, so I think we're at an impasse.

I am trying to parse this post because it sort of reads like “My neighbors are dumb and we care about the same things” but I can’t figure out why someone would write that How did we get from you saying that you didn’t understand the post that you responded to to neighbor chat in so few posts

Post by sshine » Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC

robocat wrote: post #596

amoshebb wrote: post #260

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I’m not a business person, but they’re already at the “hundreds of thousands of servers” scale, what about the 41st data center be organizationally far more expensive than the first 40?

Businesses charge their customers as much as they can. Businesses want to raise prices almost regardless of what their input costs are. It is wrong to believe that a product's "correct" price is simply its cost plus a reasonable markup. There's other factors that might limit how much a business can charge their customers. But an ideal business acts more like a monopoly and charges far far more than is 'fair'. In theo…