There was a big price increase a month or two ago that affected existing servers. I think this is recognizing that Hetzner just can’t acquire new servers (particularly memory) at anywhere close to what they could before. RAM prices are up about 400% in the past year and rising, and I think even server chassis and CPUs are being largely soaked up by the mesoscale datacenter builds.

Net net, this sucks. And my expectation is that Hetzner will still be the cheapest game in town by about the same percentages as before. It the costs keep going up, I think we will see the fediverse starting to struggle.

Between the absolute crush of bot registrations and the spiraling costs, I have been contemplating moving to a required donation for new accounts.

I'm so happy that I went for local hosting at home since 2008. I started with game servers.

Eventually hosting everything from git server to file storage. From todo list to my homepage. From my blog to voip server. From plantuml server to mbin. From Mastodon to my own search engine. From dashboarding to block chain explorer.

My instance runs on a dedicated server at hetzner, from their server auction. My price only increased like 3%, which is honestly lower than inflation given how many years we've been at that price point. So I'm completely fine with it. I've not heard of these enormous price hikes before.

I host on my own hardware. Hopefully said hardware will continue to last for a long time.

This also calls for more optimisation from the developers, meaning less use of resources on the hardware.

I have one of their auctioned servers, so the price increase was just three percent. Since the auctioned servers are all legacy hardware, I don't expect any sharp price hikes in these.

Several admins had moved away from Hetzner because of some of their policies, so they impact may be smaller than expected

The prices for my servers basically increased by 30% I thought about consolidating my 3 VPSes in one big VPS for all 3 instances, but I have not gotten around to it, and I am not sure if I will actually go through with it...

i moved my mbin instance from one of the more expensive options, amazon, to hetzner coming up on almost a year ago now.

they have some used, dedicated servers that you can get diirt cheap. when they raised all the prices mine went up maybe 3%. and thats after more than halving my monthly cost by moving there in the first place. no big deal.

its clearly their cloudy hardware (scaling) used for ai nonsense that they are pushing rates up on, for those obvious reasons. they dont give a shit who pays and theres lots of stupidly deep ai pockets at the moment

I’m running my server on my own hardware, so all of my sevices will be fine

Fucked me. Their explanation was super reasonable, but I'm still hosed.

They've hugely increased the prices for the higher priced virtual servers. Dedicated server prices have also gone up but not anywhere near as much. I've had a lower-end auction dedi for several years and it's a few bucks more per month now than when I got it way before the shortages. In fact after I got it, prices of comparable servers dropped by quite a lot, though I didn't bother migrating.

I switched from Hetzner to Netcup last year and took the yearly deal just before they increased prices as well, so I'm safe until 2026-12-09. After that, I'll have to figure out what to switch to, if anything at all.

I think it was only newly purchased servers.