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  • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

    ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens😕

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    @jerry Is there any public info about this ?

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    • eingfoan@infosec.exchangeE eingfoan@infosec.exchange

      @jerry Is there any public info about this ?

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      @eingfoan They have a detailed page with the pricing changes here: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/

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      • renchap@oisaur.comR renchap@oisaur.com

        @jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.

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        @renchap @jerry You might be on to something here. There are a vast number of smaller orgs whose websites are getting positively swamped by all kinds of content scraping activity, much of it to build out LLMs. There are real and direct costs, and this is an important and seldom highlighted one.

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        • briankrebs@infosec.exchangeB briankrebs@infosec.exchange

          @renchap @jerry You might be on to something here. There are a vast number of smaller orgs whose websites are getting positively swamped by all kinds of content scraping activity, much of it to build out LLMs. There are real and direct costs, and this is an important and seldom highlighted one.

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          @briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc

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          • renchap@oisaur.comR renchap@oisaur.com

            @jerry Be ready for all providers to announce some in the coming weeks, the hardware world is on fire right now thanks to OpenAI and their shenanigans to kill their competitors (and the AI bubble overall).
            OVH announced a 10-15% increase as well.

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            @renchap @jerry Just imagine how cheap reconditioned servers will be after AI explodes...

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            • melroy@mastodon.melroy.orgM melroy@mastodon.melroy.org

              @renchap problem is like you said, storage is basically nvne today, which is also made by the same machines.

              Same with GPU, which also has ram on board. And recently China also has a high demand on cpus. So overall, CPU, GPU, Ram and storage prices increased. These are all essential components. Maybe GPU in a lesser degree on servers that only host websites. So as long as the Ai bubble doesn't burst, I predict more like a 100% to 200% price increase for a total machine.

              @jerry

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              @melroy @renchap @jerry

              "So as long as the Ai bubble doesn't burst"

              Hahahaha...

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              • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                @briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc

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                @jerry @briankrebs @renchap Can confirm. They essentially DDoS'd our old website due to how Wordpress handles active lookups with all the effing PHP. Moved to Webflow and our compute dropped way down, partly due to the difference in rendering.

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                • neurovagrant@masto.deoan.orgN neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org

                  @jerry @briankrebs @renchap Can confirm. They essentially DDoS'd our old website due to how Wordpress handles active lookups with all the effing PHP. Moved to Webflow and our compute dropped way down, partly due to the difference in rendering.

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                  @neurovagrant @jerry @briankrebs @renchap

                  @hrbrmstr knows a lot about this.

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                  • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                    @briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc

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                    @jerry Maybe you already know this, but I heard Iocaine is pretty good blocking scrapers.
                    https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
                    Don't know if it would work with mastodon.

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                    • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                      ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens😕

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                      @jerry Good luck.

                      I just replaced my old desktop with a new unit. Little mini HP PC. Bought w/ minimal RAM/disk, then bought new RAM separately. The RAM cost 1/2 the price of PC. About $230 for 2 @ 16 GB DDR4 SODIMMs.

                      Thanks, "AI."

                      I'm also trying my best to self-host what I can, because 99.9% of what I want to run is just for me/my wife, and I can absolutely get away with it on my limited hardware.

                      This is truly the worst timeline.

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                      • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                        @eingfoan They have a detailed page with the pricing changes here: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/

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                        @jerry @eingfoan Phew, looks like StorageShare is not affected at the moment. #NextCloud

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                        • haraldkliems@fosstodon.orgH haraldkliems@fosstodon.org

                          @jerry @eingfoan Phew, looks like StorageShare is not affected at the moment. #NextCloud

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                          @haraldkliems @eingfoan Hetzner didn't appear to be affected until 8 hours ago. Hopefully it stays that way for you

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                          • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                            @briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc

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                            @jerry @briankrebs @renchap Can confirm: I'm being hit with ~4 requests per second with spikes up to 50 per second lasting hours to days.

                            It doesn't effect my site (although I still started sending them randomly generated nonsense text), I've seen plenty of great sites get DDoSed off the Internet.

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                            • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                              @renchap I don't blame Hetzner, and I know they aren't the only ones. It's going to soon impact just about everything else we do online, I am guessing.

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                              @jerry @renchap Also got my mail with the new prices. Ouch. One server went up almost 40€/month

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                              • renchap@oisaur.comR renchap@oisaur.com

                                @jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.

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                                @renchap @jerry I placed an order for a laptop on February 4th; today I checked its price, and it's 10% higher than it was then.

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                                • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                                  ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens😕

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                                  @jerry They didn’t pay more for the RAM you are using. Once there is a reason people accept for price raises, it will be used “ad infinitum”.

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                                  • jerry@infosec.exchangeJ jerry@infosec.exchange

                                    @briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc

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                                    @jerry @briankrebs @renchap @Em0nM4stodon
                                    I distinctly remember the top corporations have companies that protect all their intellect property. It seemed Like a big conglomerate.

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