Fair Enough
Price rises are to be expected and could have been worse. I'm just going to 'suck it up' as an inevitability. Nobody is happy, well a few people are happy, but most people are unhappy but what choice does one have.
Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day
Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1. The increases will apply to both existing customers and new orders at its datacenters in Germany, Finland, the US and Singapore. Hetzner provides low-cost …
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 13:44 GMT big_D
Re: Fair Enough
Yeah, we bought 6 servers with 2 Xeon Gold processors, 1TB RAM and 2 SANs with 60TB SSD storage for our main data center in October. I am now looking at updating another site with 4 servers, 1 Xeon Gold and 512GB RAM and only 1 SAN will cost more than the hardware for the main data center! Luckily the hardware on that site is not overly stressed at the moment and was coming up with the normal replacement cycle, so we are looking at extending the support another 2 years and see what happens to the prices in the meantime...
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Tuesday 24th February 2026 21:34 GMT paluster
its a conspiracy
How about we start a conspiracy theory that this whole AI thing is an enormous scam designed to push up the cost of memory, disk and CPUs/GPUs in order to price everyone except the hyperscalers out of the market.
I'm waiting for the bubble to burst and produce baskets of surplus components marked "slightly used only one stupid owner".
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 03:09 GMT Jamie Jones
Re: its a conspiracy
The problem with that is from what I hear, most of this stuff is specialised (enterprise and HBM ram etc.), and no use to the regular consumer.
That would make things worse - a surplus of technology they can't sell at all will be wasted money they'll try to recoup.
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 09:14 GMT rg287
Re: its a conspiracy
I'm waiting for the bubble to burst and produce baskets of surplus components marked "slightly used only one stupid owner".
If only. But a tidal wave of used HBM and AI-oriented GPUs aren't going to help the rest of us. It's not like we'd get a glut of DDR5 DIMMs and x86 onto the market (although there's obviously some of that). It's all soldered onto single-purpose SoCs. A tsunami of single-purpose ewaste instead.
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Tuesday 24th February 2026 23:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Will you listen to me now?
Fucking sick of not being listened to. Was stuck on my own for a year as everyone sensible quit because we weren't being listened to and paid piss poorly. When you are getting on a bit and stuck with anxiety, mugs like me stay.
Stuck with a micromanaging cunt and clueless no experience IT manager. I kept pointing out "Moving to the cloud will be more expensive". They listened to our MSP rather than me. Every meeting the MSP would shoot down my argument "You'll be getting rid of old kit, so it will end up being cheaper".
I gave up and started keeping my mouth shut every week in our tech talks. Unless forced to speak I didn't bother.
Role on a year later we get a new IT manager, same old micromanaging cunt is still there though. Finally it hits, micromanager asks new manager "Ask the MSP why are bills are increasing. Moving to the cloud was supposed to save lots of money". Next call I had a smerk on my face but said nothing as the MSP finally said "of course it will be more expensive. What did you expect? With the cloud you get convenience but it will always cost more".
Fuckers.
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 11:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Will you listen to me now?
"Ask the MSP why are bills are increasing. Moving to the cloud was supposed to save lots of money". Next call I had a smerk on my face but said nothing as the MSP finally said "of course it will be more expensive. What did you expect? With the cloud you get convenience but it will always cost more"
Last place I worked we moved everything to 'da cloud' as it would be cheaper than updating and looking after our increasingly aged crop of servers. And it was (at first).
Then business groups started migrating their data to the cloud.
Cue head of IT tearing his hair out because the storage costs had gone through the roof and what we were paying per month would have replaced *all* our servers with newer, more powerful ones and given us far more storage than we were using online. But, because it's runtime cost and not capital, it can't be used to buy new kit.
Sure, end users wouldn't have been able to browse it all from their home PC (good - security hole waiting to happen!) but our data costs would have just been hardware maintenance, not on-going monthly costs.
Just before I left they were proposing to bring server support & service desk back in-house and migrate some of the multi-TB datasets back to on-prem. I almost laughed.
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Friday 27th February 2026 21:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Will you listen to me now?
Costs are still increasing because MS keep putting their prices up. And obvious a knob consultant got hold of one of the directors and told him about "Cyber Essentials, you need it". Being secure is 100% true and needed but that fucking cert isn't. They are now finding out all their aging kit needs to be renew every 3 years, which they weren't expecting. Fucking fools, maybe speak to your IT department before you make these fucking decisions.
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 15:39 GMT Jamie Jones
Even cuter that I didn't think I needed to surround that sentence in the tags
<Obviously they spread any operational costs, purchase costs, and engineering costs amongst all customers, but it's bloody frustrating none the less>
and
</Obviously they spread any operational costs, purchase costs, and engineering costs amongst all customers, but it's bloody frustrating none the less>
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 07:26 GMT clyde666
Side effects
I'll be sticking with my Hetzner services, in spite of the price increases.
I don't remember the last time I saw a price increase notification that was so apologetic about it.
Anyway, these costs are the side effects of choices made by others. Like the RAM price increases mentioned by others, which have been brought about by mad marketeers with an AI agenda to sell.
It's the same as with your domestic energy costs, the price of energy has at least doubled in the last five years. The costs of producing have not increased anywhere near as much, the reason is political decisions.
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Wednesday 25th February 2026 14:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
Awesome news! Someone finally approving again the same frigging jobs on our resumes we could almost have soon in the 90s, but will never have, even if we did finally kidnap our deranged ex-spouses (with whom we aren't getting back with) and fly them to the past in the delorean either.
Bad news! The cup is at like 0% capacity, and cracked all the way around. Riddles not welcome.
Happy 18th, next DZ.
