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By embedding-shape 2026-02-2312:226 reply The post seems to indicate this is just for VPSs, which doesn't seem true, the email I just received from Hetzner mentions price increases for dedicated servers too.
The ones I'm affected by seemingly:
Still cheap compared to the performance + unmetered bandwidth, so I'm personally not super upset about it, my monthly bill in total goes up maybe 40-50 EUR in total, not that outrageous.Product -> previous price -> New price as of 1 April 2026 EX42-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.65 -> € 51.13 AX41 (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.22 AX41-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.18 Server Auction -> € 65.22 -> € 67.18Here is the full list of the updated prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...
Seems it's because of increased cost of hardware, and they seemingly tried to avoid increasing the prices but they couldn't. From the email:
> The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.
> We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.
By nozzlegear 2026-02-2316:212 reply I'm not particularly tied to Hetzner as an American using their Ashburn servers, so I figured maybe this price increase puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing. The pricing is still pretty heavily in Hetzner's favor though: the CCX23s that I use will be $39.99 USD after April 1, but the closest DO equivalent is $126 USD with a third of the disk space.
By zipy124 2026-02-2411:00 I would imagine we are going to see a DO price increase soon, given the crazy costs of RAM and now storage. Given the usual life cycle of server hardware, they will need to start preparing their increases for the next cycle.
By re-thc 2026-02-2414:26 > puts them a little closer to DigitalOcean's pricing
DigitalOcean has been losing out to hardware inflation for a long time. Most of their fleet is very old except maybe the very top tier and that's still old.
They're really overdue for a refresh but now the hardware is so expensive.
By qwertox 2026-02-2413:30 It does list the dedicated servers price increase:
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...
Yes, my dedicated server is going up by 3% this year. That doesn't seem bad at all. It's still cheap!
By clouedoc 2026-02-2415:42 Same. This price increases is making me think about switching all the workload that I have on Hetzner Cloud into dedicated auctions server.
By tcldr 2026-02-2413:29 The price increases for dedicated servers are reflected in the higher setup costs. For example, I believe AX102 setup was EUR 39.00 now EUR 269.00.
By Daviey 2026-02-2514:50 I also thought it was only going to impact fixed prices services such as VPS / Cloud etc. But I'm pretty pissed off to have just got an email about dedicated "server auction" products. We agreed a price by auction, and they are putting it up.. Grrr
> the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025
How to ruin the entire Internet, software engineering and personal servers just because some billionaire man children watched Star Trek 30 years ago.
They are coming for everyone, including those who promote this AI nonsense here and who will be disposed of first, because they are the least competent.
While I have written elsewhere[1] that I think AI is causing a bubble right now, AI is also the biggest technological change to the world since the Internet.
I'm a software engineer, and I don't write code anymore. I'm still coming to terms with that, grieving the loss of my old career and getting used to the new career which is more like a technical lead and product person than a computer programmer.
A significant part of this is probably just the hockey-stick growth in the price of memory we have seen in the past 6 months. Would be surprised if this wasn't impacting their bottom line for maintenance.
RAM increased the most, but also SSD and HDD prices increased significantly. And it seems there are also supply problems, so you can't even be sure if you get the components you want at higher prices.
By gbuk2013 2026-02-2414:34 Right, this is what they said in the customer notification email I got today:
“The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.”
There is another factor at play here: EU hosting providers that are not owned lock, stock & barrel are few and far between and Hetzner has a very nice sales representative in the White House.
By candiddevmike 2026-02-2314:13 Here's to hoping the IOU purchase orders for RAM and SSDs get cancelled... Though I think folks are hedging that this will happen and limiting new suppliers.
I kinda miss the days of the crazy housing bubble back in late 2000s, at least that bubble didn't affect my daily life.
By 2OEH8eoCRo0 2026-02-2414:54 Is there also an increase in non-US hosting demand?
These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers. The price increase ratios are also different across product lines.
* Cloud (VMs): 38%
* Bare metal: 15%
* Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately)
It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set high to discourage customers from adding more memory.
AX102 (128 GB RAM) costs €124, AX162 (256 GB RAM) costs €244, but the 128 GB memory add-on alone costs €264. If we ignore the setup fee, it’s more cost-effective to provision additional servers instead of adding RAM to bare metal instances.
Here's the link to cloud and bare metal pricing changes: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...
By jsheard 2026-02-2312:55 > * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately)
> It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set very high to discourage customers from adding more memory.
Memory prices are so stupid now that 575% is pretty close to their actual costs.
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
DDR5-6000 2x32GB: ~$200 -> ~$1000
By bluedino 2026-02-2414:31 > * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately)
> It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set high to discourage customers from adding more memory.
List price on Dell's website for servers is about $100/GB for RAM. Woof.
> * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately)
I don’t see this anywhere, source?
