This is just the reality of hardware costs now. RAM and Disk are scarce, prices have skyrocketed.

I wonder how much leverage the hyperscalers like AWS/GCP/Azure have on their own supply chain to keep costs level in their clouds.

I use to be a huge Hetzner fan but it doesn't appear they have launch any new hardware in the past 3-years.

One of the reasons why I loved Hetzner so much is that you could always get the latest generation hardware ... but unless I have missed it - it seems like their hardware hasn't been refreshed in awhile.

(Still really like them, just wish they had dedicated servers in the US as well)

EDIT: maybe what I use in hardware is uncommon, but have been wanting an update to their AX102 line

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102-u/

New prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...

Old prices: https://web.archive.org/web/20260513201413/https://docs.hetz...

It really is an absolute massive jump. Have no clue what's going on in the back to warrant a 3x increase... 25-50%, sure.. but 3x is wild.

I just used Claude to convert my app to a serverless architecture and migrated to Cloudflare and their generous tiers. Not every app fits that model, but it's more than you'd think. Now I only pay when the app is used, not a penny more.

The new prices are here: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...

(However, Hetzner did an earlier price increase 38 days ago. HN's submission logic sends posting the url to the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306066)

There can only be so many "I saved 10x by moving to Hetzner" posts before they pick up the value they were leaving on the table...

If you personally need it there is still time to get cheaper ones off auction:

https://www.hetzner.com/sb/#ram_from=256

Yeah mostly old CPUs, but considering RAM shortages gonna be much cheaper than colocation.

PS: link contains 256GB RAM filter since I guess OP need RAM.

"Fun" times for services selling micro-VMs running on top of Hetzner bare metal machines for a small margin. 3x increase in input pricing with essentially no notice (there was a 2 weeks notice of "we will change pricing" but no details. People assumed a max of 50% increase, I guess, not 3x)

Seems like it doesn't apply to older machines, I have AX41-NVMe, it's not on the list, I also didn't get any notification from them (and they usually send some) - no need to panic if you're longterm customer.

As a long term metal customer, I understood the need to raise prices for energy usage.... but for disk/ram I'm struggling to be sympathetic. The hardware I am using is already procured by them, and until such time there is a hardware failure I cannot support a price rise, because were is their justification for existing hardware?

Getting close to losing any point of them existing. They were the cheap one. You take that away and their unique offering vanishes and makes them pretty pointless to even consider as a provider. Really hope they can sort out something for their hardware sourcing as this isn't sustainable.

The last price increase was 5-10%. This one is a 150% increase. Goodbye Hetzner. The old version of you will be missed.

Hetzner has long been affordable due to its subpar latency and protection, making this price increase very questionable. No one has real reason to choose hetzner if it is not affordable. OVH ends it, one Romanian provider as well.

I tried to sign up to Hetzner services once. They wanted photo of my government ID, and almost all my personal data, full dossier. So I abstained.

None of OVH, GCP, AWS, Azure wanted so much data about me, and I run my services in all of them successfully. Not in Hetzner.

Sorry Hetzner, you're too data-hungry. Nothing you say justifies that.

Similar providers (heroku, aws) haven't increased their compute/ram/ec2/dyno prices recently; why is Hetzner's increase so massive (> 3-4x) - wouldn't increased hardware costs affect everyone else too?

Hetzner dramatically increased prices for new and rescaled instances starting 15th of June, 2026; 8 AM CEST.

For orders placed before 15 June 2026, but delivered after 15 June 2026, the previous prices will apply.

It had already been announced end of May that there would be a change: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-...

Wow. This is crazy. And not only much more expensive but the standardization means you have to buy more disk if you e.g. just need more RAM or similar.

And does the standardization mean that I can no longer buy extra hardware?

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/dedicated-se...

This continuing trend is going to do a fantastic job of ensuring fewer and fewer individuals can launch casual projects and gating (non-VC) startups to those who already have the means.

They are also becoming greedy. I rent their 20GB VRAM instance GEX44, for which they now ask a 500 euro one-time setup fee. Whereas it was something like 60 euros a year ago.

Buried multiple links and scrolling deep, but looks like they're tripling prices for cloud servers in the US.

What's the next best option now?

I understand this is ultimately due to AI boom.

A couple of naive questions:

1. What's the bottleneck in ramping up RAM production? Is it the availability of silicon itself? Or the factories are at capacity?

2. Is this supposed to ease up despite the AI boom? Definitely would ease up if busted.

And the worst for my setup, there is no more ECC RAM available in their offers. At least not unless you pay an insane amount of cash..

AI seems to be ruining every single major thing that drove economic growth for the past 4 decades. PCs, the Web, software in general, high-capacity servers, Raspberry Pis and so on. The next thing to be affected will probably be smartphones. All of these things are foundations of profitable businesses right now and we are destroying them on the mere promise to get to some idiotic utopia in the future.

I was shopping for this past weekend. I found a 16core 128gb-ram(1!) unit for 110€/month with a competitor. Crazy deal. I suspected it to be a mistake, but after 24 hours it actually came online. Runs very smooth.

Contabo, an even cheaper alternative to Hetz, raised prices this month as well by 30-35% as well. Just noting it here because i couldn’t any info elsewhere.

For EU-based ops I moved to UpCloud, they have top customer service and their offerings are far more complete than Hetzner... Plus, they have more zones.

Anyone know why? Some of the tiers more than doubled in price, that's pretty insane.

"applies to new orders"

big sigh of relief

So glad I got all I needed recently.

I faintly seem to remember that Netcup is using Hetzner hardware at lower prices.

https://www.netcup.com/en/server

Previously discussed 18 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306066

It's been a struggle to allocate cost-optimized VPS at them for months now (in some regions), they were very often out-of-stock.

I'll happily pay the new prices, if they actually have the servers available. Cheap pricing is nice, but not that useful when in practice you can't actually buy most of the time.

Was this announced beforehand? How do you double prices for customers so abruptly with no transition period?

"And at that time, that's what everybody did. If a hotel wanted electricity, they had their own electric generator. And I looked at this, and I thought, this is what computation is like today. Everybody has their own data center. And that's not gonna last. It makes no sense. You're gonna buy compute off the grid. That's AWS."

- Jeff Bezos

There are just 3 or 4 DDRAM manufacturers (SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron). They fully intend to make it impractical to purchase a server outside of the hyperscalers.

I’m running a cheap VPS on hetzner. Wanted to bump up my plan but they are out of capacity for some of their plans. Demand is brutal.

I hope this doesn't hit the other servers, did they announce anything on why this increase happened? I would hate to need to move elsewhere

This is such disappointing news. I was planning on migrating some of our workloads to hetzner specifically to take advantage of the AX162 pricing which was incredibly competitive.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for competitive pricing for this kind of thing (e.g. batch jobs)? Was this applied retrospectively to existing customers?

I see that (new) EX44 servers are now 50% more expensive than before, ouch. Although there's none available anyway.

I wonder how this will affect their demand considering most people use them because they’re low cost

Looks like my AX162 isn't being retired anytime soon...

AX162 (256GB) went from €274 -> €844

Wow this is a brutal price increase for a lot of plans, at least it appears old user instance prices are grandfathered unless you rescale them.

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.