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  • Seems like it doesn't apply to older machines, I have AX41-NVMe, it's not on the list, I also didn't get any notification from them (and they usually send some) - no need to panic if you're longterm customer.
    by alfanick
  • Also running an AX41-NVMe for 6 years now. I cannot remember, but they do replace defective parts, right?
    by Aldipower
  • I hope it stays like that for a while, but I suspect it won't.

    Advertised prices for my setup are now roughly 2x what I'm currently paying.

    by avian
  • First two sentences. Only new plans are affected. Hold onto your servers as long as you can.
    by chadgpt3
  • "Fun" times for services selling micro-VMs running on top of Hetzner bare metal machines for a small margin. 3x increase in input pricing with essentially no notice (there was a 2 weeks notice of "we will change pricing" but no details. People assumed a max of 50% increase, I guess, not 3x)
    by tauntz
  • Well crap, I was planning on doing this.

    Although I did plan for OVH-level dedicated server prices, so as long as they don't jack up prices too I'll be fine...

    by 2001zhaozhao
  • You knew when they didn't include actual details at the time that something huge was coming
    by 100ms
  • Don't forget these price increases are only for new purchases. Old rentals keep their price.
    by ramblurr
  • I use to be a huge Hetzner fan but it doesn't appear they have launch any new hardware in the past 3-years.

    One of the reasons why I loved Hetzner so much is that you could always get the latest generation hardware ... but unless I have missed it - it seems like their hardware hasn't been refreshed in awhile.

    (Still really like them, just wish they had dedicated servers in the US as well)

    EDIT: maybe what I use in hardware is uncommon, but have been wanting an update to their AX102 line

    https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102-u/

    by alberth
  • it's not that bad, EX63 dedicated servers were a great deal until this week (especially with 192 GB ECC RAM upgrade) and it has a 2025 CPU, for example
    by antonkochubey
  • They are attempting to refresh it now, it's just the worst possible time to do it. Prices are at a peak (hopefully).
    by tencentshill
  • Is there a lot of new enterprise server hardware coming out lately? Consumer stuff has been stagnant with all the ram cost issues so I could see servers running into similar issues.
    by nemomarx
  • If you personally need it there is still time to get cheaper ones off auction:

    https://www.hetzner.com/sb/#ram_from=256

    Yeah mostly old CPUs, but considering RAM shortages gonna be much cheaper than colocation.

    PS: link contains 256GB RAM filter since I guess OP need RAM.

    by SXX
  • how's that work? do they operate them on the buyer's behalf?
    by moomoo11
  • It seems like what's missing here is lower cost plans, because the existing plans had been fairly affordable, but now they're basically triple.

    The least expensive one seems to be CPX11, old price $6.99, new price $20.49. That's 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD. RAM and SSD are now much more expensive, fair enough, but maybe I don't need all that for my mostly-idle VM, so then where's the plan with ~0.67GB RAM and ~13GB SSD for the old price?

    by zrm
  • It's wild how much more expensive they are in the US compared to Europe.
    by IsTom
  • They price hiked my existing CCX13 from 16€ to 43€ - that is a 2.6x price increase (!). Technically they didn't increase it yet, for as long as I don't order a new one or rescale (up/down) they let me use the old price. This is insane (it is a cloud server, with 2 dedicated cores and 8 GB RAM).
    by littlecranky67
  • On netcup I'm paying only 9€ for better specs. AMD 4 cores and 8GB ram. Worth looking at their offers/deals section.
    by k4rli
  • Yeah, I host three small-scale game servers for an indie-game, all out of pocket. 50-80 players hop on every day and the community is super nice. Its been possible because the price has been €16 per instance, but with these new prices, it will absolutely not be possible anymore. I imagine a lot of small game server communities will meet the same fate now, since Hetzner has been the go-to for this kind of stuff.
    by civvv
  • New prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...

    Old prices: https://web.archive.org/web/20260513201413/https://docs.hetz...

    by hk__2
  • They are on the linked page?
    by jstummbillig
  • There can only be so many "I saved 10x by moving to Hetzner" posts before they pick up the value they were leaving on the table...
    by yread
  • It was never the same quality though. A VM at AWS or GCP is not even remotely comparable to a VPS at some low-end provider. Things like RAID, network/powersupply redundancy, internal privacy controls (nothing stopping a VPS provider from snooping in your filesystem), software patch quality, noisy neighbor mitigation, bandwidth quality, SLAs etc. Then all the value-added stuff like Terraform support, logging, monitoring, IAM roles, instant scalability etc. Not to mention the benefits if you use the same cloud's managed services like databases.

    If I can get a same-spec EC2 instance at AWS for just 2x the price of a Hetzner box, I would never consider Hetzner. It had to be a "10x savings".

    by roncesvalles
  • The same will happen with the other providers.

    Hetzner just achieved their pricing by using commodity consumer hardware.

    This is now making them the canary, as they don't have the multi year business contacts the others have - so they're uniquely vulnerable to the current consumer hardware price increase.

    But the rest will follow, unless the bubble burst, which is unlikely to happen before the others increase their costs, too

    by ffsm8
  • I moved to Scaleway one or two price upgrades ago. Be ready to see the same, but with OVH or Scaleway instead.
    by speedgoose
  • I literally migrated last week, and saved 8x by ditching AWS for Hetzner.
    by tda
  • Just wait for the hyperscalers to follow suit
    by praseodym
  • The new prices are here: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...

    (However, Hetzner did an earlier price increase 38 days ago. HN's submission logic sends posting the url to the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306066)

    by ozgune
  • Ah, so this is ANOTHER price increase in a short timeframe? Thought I read about this before
    by moontear
  • The price of server auctions seem pretty much the same as before: https://www.hetzner.com/sb so if you don't need the latest hardware, Hetzner is still and outstanding deal.
    by ralferoo