alt Hacker NewsHetzner Prices increase 30-40%
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This mirrors the increased costs of people who already space + power in a DC, and want to buy new machines to fill their racks. Everybody is being hit.
I couldn't find any changes on their keyturn stuff with the 'Webhosting' products?
Is the price hike only on Hetzner's offer for dedicated or VPS servers?
36% as per the linked post, 38% was a typo.
Nice, so we finally know who's actually paying the costs for the AI boom, while the returns go exclusively to the scamers.
Wow. That sucks. hcloud was great for ages and highly competitively priced.
Vultr may be a good alternative. If you want to search VPS prices across the 6 major clouds (gcloud, aws-cli, hcloud, az, doctl, and vultr-cli) I made a wrapper TUI that lets you search, sort, and rent VPS.
See it here: https://tui.bluedot.ink
I tried to sign-up with Hetzner instance last night - after all the signup etc, it expects me to enter my passport information for "verification". Fuck that.
With the recent price spikes in memory and storage, this was just a matter of time.
From the email:
> For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025.
That is an utterly insane price hike. Is production being scaled up, and will that take years? Or are producers happy charging 5x the price for the same amount of effort?
How much of this is driven by speculation vs actual demand?
companies that haven't turned a profit are outbidding the rest of the economy for hardware. that's not a supply shortage, it's a subsidy funded by venture capital.
Even my more then 11 years old server increases by 80 Eurocent! Dare you!
For out 30-40% increase in infra would crucify some companies!
It's happening on April 1. Should we take it seriously?
Well, €1,20 increase isn't going to break it.
Surely that means that as soon as prices of ram drop, Hetzner will also drop the prices, right? RIGHT?
My increases were around 4%
I recommend Netcup as a solid EU budget alternative to Hetzner, zero complaints from me.
Does that mean they will upgrade the fleet? Can we get AMD Turin across the board? US cloud has been lacking.
I understand the Ai slop casing hardware supply issues and so naturally you'll see an increase in price, but this one is confusing :
> Note: All "Server Auction" servers have a 3% price increase across the board.
Why would that warrant an increase if the HW is already there ?
This excuse "we need to raise prices because we have more demand" is BS. They should be truthful and say "we can increase prices and people will pay it because they want to be EU based"
To be honest for anything more serious than a personal Minecraft server hetzner has been beaten by ovh for ages (on bandwidth - you get all you can eat data limited by speed from ovh - for example 500mbit, instead of 20tb from hetzner).
For this reason hetzner is always a "backup DC" in my eyes and never the primary.
Also I heard they are extremely sensitive regarding abuse allegations so don't even think of hosting something someone may not like seeing...
They get a lot of hype, but there are many competitors worth looking at.
"Edit: It's 36% ! Can't edit the title typo of 38%"
Ouch. OVH are also going to increase their prices.
Silver lining: can you imagine how dirt cheap RAM will be after that bubble has popped? Oh my...
... more customers so they must increase prices? This seems backwards from how scale usually works.
Can anybody predict this craze? The classical memory manufacturers are not yet adding additional manufacturing capacity. They learned this hard way in the past. That means, the demand is here to stay for years without typical bubble burst. Is this a point where Chinese companies will rise worldwide?
some hetzner alternatives please.
The overhyped AI bubble needs to pop already.
Running a small project on Hetzner from Germany. Got the email this morning. Honestly, even after the increase their dedicated boxes are still absurdly cheap compared to what you'd pay at AWS or GCP for equivalent specs.
The real story here isn't Hetzner being greedy. It's that AI companies are vacuuming up every DRAM chip on the planet and the rest of us get to pay the tax. I priced out a RAM upgrade for my home server last week. Same kit I bought 8 months ago for 90 EUR is now 400+. That's not normal market dynamics.
What worries me more is the second-order effects. Startups that would normally spin up cheap VPS instances to prototype and iterate now face meaningfully higher costs at the exact stage where every euro matters. The "just deploy it" culture that made European indie dev scene so productive was built on sub-10 EUR/month boxes. Those days might be over for a while.
... and still remain far too cost-effective. Frankly this says more about the rest of the industry than for hetzner
Ah yes, the abundance of AI that keeps on giving.
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Competing on price never lasts.
BuyFromEU is the funniest subreddit there is right now. Unintentionally but still entertaining. EU has managed to paint itself into unenviable corner. I can't buy from EU even thought I want to because for physical goods - cross country shipping costs are prohibitive and for digital - they are either subpar, more expensive or both.
Try this as experiment - try to buy something like precision dowel pins from Poland or DOLD Mechatronik with shipping to Greece, Bulgaria or Romania vs the same thing from Aliexpress or Temu. Chinese costs are cheaper even if they have to fly here.
Looks like this is IPv6-only pricing, by the way.
$0.60 will be added for the IPv4.