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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 echelon »

GlacierFox wrote: post #40
echelon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Video editors using video models can replace entire studio production departments. Writer-directors who know how to direct are essentially now Hollywood studios in their own right. I know a lot about this in particular because I've been making films as a hobby for 15+ years and work with a lot of industry professionals. This is soul destroying. Literally made my day worse thinking about this.

10,000 students go to film school every year. A handful of them will have the autonomy and scope they want. The rest of their dreams die on the vine.

This is my friends' lives.

That should make your day worse.

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Post by alt227 »

hiuioejfjkf wrote: post #80
re-thc wrote: post #79

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The free demand is increasing. With price increases hitting the cloud, will there still be demand?

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At this point all the programmers will stop using ai, hence bubble bursting.

What is the point of paying $5000/month to keep a job which pays $10000/month?

Re: Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

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Post by citrin_ru »

dagi3d wrote: post #18

Why are they increasing the prices on already existing infrastructure? Is that a way to "subsidize" the new purchases?

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.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

lm28469 wrote: post #69
joe_mamba wrote: post #66

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>All it'll take is one company to go bust, oracle for example, for the whole thing to deflate Provided that of course, the US administration will be incorruptible enough to not bail out these tech companies with taxpayer money when they do eventually fail. But when you see the connection between Larry Ellison and Trump, you realize the whole "free market competition" is a scam for suckers. Always has been, just that…

> Provided that of course, the US administration will be incorruptible enough to not bail out these tech companies with taxpayer money when they do eventually fail. I'd love them to try that because virtually no one on any part of the political spectrum would get behind that besides the most corrupted and soulless ghouls masquerading as politicians

I'd love them to try getting caught on audio asking a governor to find votes, and campaign on pardoning people convicted of treason because virtually no one on any part of the political spectrum would get behind that besides the most corrupted and soulless ghouls masquerading as politicians.

I could have substituted many other things up there. I was very naive when I thought getting caught on audio talking about grabbing women by the pussy and being able to do whatever you want to them because you’re a celebrity was one of those things too.

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Post by eigenspace »

ahofmann wrote: post #76
dagi3d wrote: post #18

Why are they increasing the prices on already existing infrastructure? Is that a way to "subsidize" the new purchases?

Hetzner mostly ate up the rising energy prices in germany for the last 3 years and they have big problems with their hardware supply since then. It is hard to get cloud instances in nbg and fsn. So an increase in pricing is very much expected from my side.

German electricity prices have been falling for the last 3 years. They've been below the pre-war levels for a while now.

Hardware prices, especially with the current chaos, and the huge spike in demand they've doubtless seen is more than enough to explain this price hike though.

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Post by CaptainJack »

anonzzzies wrote: post #52

I have been buying older servers by the truckloads. Older being a year or so. It will be enough to host whatever outside AI that we need for the coming 15-20 years. And the all were great deals, will have them paid for within a month per server. I have my own cage full with empty racks bought from a bankrupt company in AMS.

Curious about the specs of servers that you are buying. We are looking for some non-GPU HPC servers, but there's always the question of whether second-hand servers will be good-enough/power-efficient for our use case.
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