<![CDATA[Some prices are going crazy.]]>Some prices are going crazy.

Some of the @hetzner servers I usually lease, the AX102, now require a setup fee of more than €600 (!!!).

I don't understand it. I know hardware prices are insane, but you're not actually buying the hardware. You're leasing it. And it's not new hardware.

I'll try to make sure I keep the ones I already have, and I'm aware that one of my clients will be discontinuing one of those servers. I'll ask them to transfer ownership to me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/9e1d4c09-9ada-4482-b02e-4649e59386fd/some-prices-are-going-crazy.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 05:17:14 GMTSun, 10 May 2026 17:37:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Mon, 11 May 2026 16:52:05 GMT]]>@stefano @hetzner i usually also look at the auctions for a lot of the stuff i need: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/
No setup fee, no minimum runtime and sometimes quite a bit cheaper....
Though it can be a bit tougther to find someting fitting what you need (and for my usecases its mostly storage anyway, so i don't care if the cpus are older)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/albert/statuses/116556976990342916https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/albert/statuses/116556976990342916Mon, 11 May 2026 16:52:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Mon, 11 May 2026 04:23:06 GMT]]>@stefano @hetzner

And with those new expensive EX131 servers, you cant even add extra HDD's or SSD's...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/TomSeppert/statuses/116554031848664803https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/TomSeppert/statuses/116554031848664803Mon, 11 May 2026 04:23:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Mon, 11 May 2026 02:37:39 GMT]]>@stefano @overeducatedredneck @hetzner Big servers spec'ed for hypervisor use at my work, that were 70k before, are being quoted at 230-250k each now, and pricing varies weekly. It's a wild time in the server hardware market.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.clitheroe.ca/users/scott/statuses/116553617238909806https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.clitheroe.ca/users/scott/statuses/116553617238909806Mon, 11 May 2026 02:37:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Sun, 10 May 2026 20:16:06 GMT]]>@overeducatedredneck @hetzner it does. I understand it, more than 4x looks a little high.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116552116903715223https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116552116903715223Sun, 10 May 2026 20:16:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Sun, 10 May 2026 19:56:11 GMT]]>@stefano @hetzner It's insane, but it's still coming from hardware price increases.

Cloud providers have a hardware failure rate, so they're always having to decommission and buy hardware. They also need to maintain a pool of idle servers so they can spin things up when they get new customers/demand.

To me, the setup fee is there to keep them solvent in the face of those rising hardware costs.

I don't know their internal numbers, they might be overcharging.

It sucks.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/overeducatedredneck/statuses/116552038569292975https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/overeducatedredneck/statuses/116552038569292975Sun, 10 May 2026 19:56:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Sun, 10 May 2026 19:19:33 GMT]]>@stefano 😱 @hetzner

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_elena/statuses/116551894506687928https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/_elena/statuses/116551894506687928Sun, 10 May 2026 19:19:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Sun, 10 May 2026 18:32:38 GMT]]>@stefano it hurts!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.patpro.net/users/patpro/statuses/01KR9JKATV14CK6576QFZXTMS8https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.patpro.net/users/patpro/statuses/01KR9JKATV14CK6576QFZXTMS8Sun, 10 May 2026 18:32:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some prices are going crazy. on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:50:19 GMT]]>@stefano @hetzner insane

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