[benjiro29]

I remember the price increase that Hetzner did during 2022 because of the invasion in Ukraine. The said they will adjust the prices down when the electricity price reduced.

Guess what? I am paying as a consumer about the same price as before 2022. Did Hetzner change their price down? Remember, the industrial price also dropped (and they also build out a large solar plant). No ...

Ok, inflation? But those price increases already covered part of that... Just saying, its not been the first price increase that happened. There have been multiple ones that Hetzner did over the years. Some flew under people radars.

> Payroll has seen significant increases in Germany,

Yea, we have seen nothing of that increase... O, wait, they reduce our income because the social security increase their costs. Yay ..

[pocksuppet]

Since I started using Hetzner in 2020 they have increased prices 4 or 5 times and I am now paying 50% more than I started, but my grocery bill also went up 50% and my rent went up 50%, so that's just matching inflation (even though the government said inflation was 5%). Now they're doing a 300% increase (not for me) all at once.

[omnimus]

The reasons really doesn't matter. As long as they are in top of price/performance/quality nobody will switch. Once they stop to be then people will think about it.

[benjiro29]

> As long as they are in top of price/performance/quality nobody will switch.

Very sure that those new prices has put them out of the whole price/performance/quality bracket.

* Past: consumer level hardware for basic support, and low prices.

* Now: consumer level hardware for basic support, and extreme high prices.

So the entire peg for their hardware choice vs pricing, has collapsed.

[omnimus]

If the rest of the market stays at current prices sure. It's very likely that Hetzner is just popular and ran out of hw quicker than others. I doubt they changed their market strategy, they are probably just being realistic. We will see if/when the hikes come to others.

What sucks is that it might just be that hyperscalers have long term hw contracts and completely starve any competition.