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by dominikz 16 days ago
What is interesting is the timeline. The last update in pricing was only fourth months ago. I received the following email on the 24. of February 2026. The reasoning is the same vague arguments about general costs going up. I wonder if you can justify the same way in just four months.

I suppose the bigger question to ask, is does it have to do anything with AI forcing hardware prices to go up for everyone, or is this related to the 'green energy' transformation in Germany.

But still. Probably one of the cheapest and most reliable cloud providers (Hetzner Cloud)?

Dear ...

This mail is to inform you about an unfortunate, but necessary price change that we must make.

There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.

The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price adjustment will affect both your existing products and new orders.

...

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Smaller more frequent price increases is potentially better than larger less frequent price increases assuming they need the increase to stay profitable? Sounds like they didn’t predict the continued increasing costs.