[citrin_ru]

I would expect a large provider like Hetzner to refresh hardware continuously - every year a fraction of old hardware is retired and replaced by new. Given price shock they could stop doing this but older hardware is less energy efficient and has limited life anyway.

[alt227]

But they cant refresh hardware already sold to customers can they?

So increasing prices on existing cutomer hardware is what, subsidising hardware refreshes elsewhere in the datacenter?

[1718627440]

Often they do not actually sell you hardware servers, but VMs running on them, with designated properties.

[gizzlon]

Hetzner do both.. well rent, not sell, afaik

[1718627440]

I ment selling time-shares, so yeah rent.

[alt227]

I agree but this is not only easy to tell, you also specify when you buy AFAIK.

You either buy VPS or bare metal servers.

[nottorp]

Hosting providers do not sell hardware. They rent it.