So the AI boom is resulting in a) fewer jobs, b) massive increases in hardware, and c) exponential acceleration in wealth inequality (world's first trillionaire anyone?).

When exactly are the upsides going to hit?

It seems like what's missing here is lower cost plans, because the existing plans had been fairly affordable, but now they're basically triple.

The least expensive one seems to be CPX11, old price $6.99, new price $20.49. That's 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD. RAM and SSD are now much more expensive, fair enough, but maybe I don't need all that for my mostly-idle VM, so then where's the plan with ~0.67GB RAM and ~13GB SSD for the old price?

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/

I built a new computer with lots of RAM and a nice NVMe drive about a year ago, and I feel like I hit the jackpot with timing.

But just like a low-interest rate mortgage, I'm going to be stuck with this thing for a long time, it seems.

They price hiked my existing CCX13 from 16€ to 43€ - that is a 2.6x price increase (!). Technically they didn't increase it yet, for as long as I don't order a new one or rescale (up/down) they let me use the old price. This is insane (it is a cloud server, with 2 dedicated cores and 8 GB RAM).

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I say hello to every happy HN and twitter post “we moved to hetzner and saved 10X”.

I told ya about silent happiness…

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

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?

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.

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.

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

Well we are officially fucked. That's some increase, not angry against hetzner they might have been forced, but man is this sad.

I built a homelab before the crisis started which might allow me to survive this for the next few years.

But man am I sad about folks trying to build new projects.

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

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 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.