Comment by embedding-shape

2 months ago

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 compared to the performance + unmetered bandwidth, so I'm personally not super upset about it, my monthly bill in total goes up maybe 40-50 EUR in total, not that outrageous.

Here is the full list of the updated prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...

Seems it's because of increased cost of hardware, and they seemingly tried to avoid increasing the prices but they couldn't. From the email:

> The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.

> We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.

I'm not particularly tied to Hetzner as an American using their Ashburn servers, so I figured maybe this price increase puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing. The pricing is still pretty heavily in Hetzner's favor though: the CCX23s that I use will be $39.99 USD after April 1, but the closest DO equivalent is $126 USD with a third of the disk space.

  • I would imagine we are going to see a DO price increase soon, given the crazy costs of RAM and now storage. Given the usual life cycle of server hardware, they will need to start preparing their increases for the next cycle.

  • > puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing

    DigitalOcean has been losing out to hardware inflation for a long time. Most of their fleet is very old except maybe the very top tier and that's still old.

    They're really overdue for a refresh but now the hardware is so expensive.

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.

The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.

I also thought it was only going to impact fixed prices services such as VPS / Cloud etc. But I'm pretty pissed off to have just got an email about dedicated "server auction" products. We agreed a price by auction, and they are putting it up.. Grrr

> the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025

How to ruin the entire Internet, software engineering and personal servers just because some billionaire man children watched Star Trek 30 years ago.

They are coming for everyone, including those who promote this AI nonsense here and who will be disposed of first, because they are the least competent.

  • While I have written elsewhere[1] that I think AI is causing a bubble right now, AI is also the biggest technological change to the world since the Internet.

    I'm a software engineer, and I don't write code anymore. I'm still coming to terms with that, grieving the loss of my old career and getting used to the new career which is more like a technical lead and product person than a computer programmer.

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037421

    • Stop calling LLMs AI. We have LLMs as a product, now, but not AI. AI does exist as a research field, and so do "flying cars" and "nuclear fusion" (with arguably those two being much closer to materiality than AI).

      And no, that doesn't make me some kind of "AI hater", or someone unable to see value in LLMs.

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