Hetzner is quite dramatically "adjusting prices" beginning April 1st 2026, but I've not yet been informed by them.

[anton@social.dollmaier.name]

@jpmens we've received their lengthy email with detailed products affected by the change.

[bert_hubert@eupolicy.social]

@jpmens @anton tbh I found some of their pricing worryingly low. Not so sure you'll find something sustainable that is cheaper.

[jpmens@mastodon.social]

@anton I'm but a teeny tiny customer so probably at the end of the mailing list

And: "Anton" comes way before "JP"

[freyfogle@mastodon.social]

@jpmens @anton Their business must be absolutly booming as people switch to non-US options.

Would have been nice if they let long-time loyal customers stay on old pricing, at least for a while

[dominik@nona.social]

@jpmens @anton yeah, I didn't get an email, either

[anton@social.dollmaier.name]

@jpmens I'd not say we're a big customer either.
On the other hand, our first invoice is from 2011, so perhaps they use the customer ID as an increment for the mailings.

[sheogorath@microblog.shivering-isles.com]

@bert_hubert @jpmens @anton They once explained their price advantage comes from mainly from their custom server builds and in parts passively cooled data centre setup.

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Not sure how reliable that info is, after all it's from a marketing tour.

[jpmens@mastodon.social]

@anton this escalated quickly

[nblr@chaos.social]

@bert_hubert @jpmens @anton
One thing I've always kinda admired about Martin - ever since "back then" - was his sharp pencil. If you look at the pricing it models real world cost increase pretty closely. Their pricing is mostly a function of inflation with tightly fitted margins around actual cost.

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@jpmens is it that:

They need to scale up/out rapidly, therefore need additional cash to facilitate that?

Or is it shareholders/investors (I've no idea how Hetzner is structured) demanding a divvy/ROI?

Or has Altman's forced acquisition of everything hardware shaped pushed their own procurement cost up high enough that it's denting the bottom line?

Whichever - those are pretty unpleasant rises in % terms.

[alanjp@mastodon.social]

@jpmens @anton
Not just Hetzner, OVH are also substantially raising their prices and curiously on exactly the same date.

[michel@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@jpmens @anton I´m going back to hetzner even with the new prices. OVH is pushing more than 60% vs 36% from hetzner.

[ascherbaum@mastodon.social]

@jpmens @anton Is Hetzner reading your postings here?

[ripienaar@devco.social]

@jpmens @anton @joschi for me was very small increases like less than 2 euro per machine

[renchap@oisaur.com]

@AlanJP It's not curious, all providers got their new prices from their memory vendors, and this will get worse
@jpmens @anton

[jzb@hachyderm.io]

@jpmens @anton @johanneskastl don’t blame Hetzner, blame the AI bogosity that’s sucking up all the RAM and Storage.

And don’t think migrating is going to save you money in the long term-it’s going to hit all the hosters. My guess is that Hetzner is going first because they don’t have as high a margin, which is why they’ve been cheaper.

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@AlanJP
Thanks for the heads-up. OVH has a pretty unfortunate track record of ratcheting up the price on the same hardware I've had for years. I've got a couple other VPS instances at other providers who lock the price so I need to spend some time migrating my OVH host over to them.