Hetzner Price Adjustment

I've only been using this a lot for a few months now. I'm sorry to see this.

Correct me if I am wrong, but AI made software development and operations more expensive than before. Yes, it is faster too, but the question: is it worth the price? Can the users consume new features in that pace?

It is sucking away electricity from cities, making hardware costly for common user, pumping heat into global atmosphere, taking away jobs, creating massive amount of slop, killing human motivation for creativity, making academics and exams harder, creating fakes that are undetectable, filling internet with plastic content, pumping tons of unmaintainable code, wrecking websites ...

Still - AI is a great achievement?

Most people IN TECH still don't realize how much hardware prices are going to continue to increase, much less the 95% of the population that's completely unplugged from what's going on with AI-driven hardware demand.

All of these price increases are going to get passed down to consumers eventually via increased prices.

what's a good hetzner alternative for US?

i'm currently using their hillsboro instances.

i'm not going to pay 3-4x more.

"First you corner the market, then you raise the prices" - Walter White

We can't factor out greed from this increase. Vote with your wallet! Please.

Everything is getting stupider by the day.

Tech is killing itself until this idiotic bubble bursts.

Then we'll be in a decade of drought again like 2001

The solution I think is to tell all of them starting with clouds to go fuck themselves (where possible of course) and start self hosting. I do this for years and am totally happy. I was also hosting on Hetzner and was thinking to do it again for some (not all) services but not with this new wonderful deal.

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Ok

I was signing up for Hetzner years ago and it asked me to upload my passport to use their service.

At that same time, I was reading about this story about WireCard. It was like Stripe for Europe and worth billions. Turns out it was run by a Russian spy network and was all a sham. That video alleged Germany’s bureaucracy is filled with Russian agents and this can be traced back to the East/West Berlin days.

To save a few bucks a month over DO didn’t seem worth it to me to send my passport to a foreign country.