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Providers that increase or going to increase prices
CyberCr33p
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Can you list which providers have increased or will increase prices due to energy costs or other reasons?
I already know:
1) Hetzner: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/price-adjustment/
2) DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/try/new-pricing
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Energy prices?
3) everyone; atleast in EU till or after beginning 2023. Not later then Q2/2023.
Anyone want to list the petrol stations that have increased their prices or will increase their prices?
Can we also have a list of providers which increase salaries of employees, due to electricity pricing increasing for their homes and families?
How will the employee afford to pay for idling servers, if the idling server increases in price?
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Webline Services increased their prices this year. That is what drove me to sign up for another VPS this year. I still have the VPS with Webline Services, but after the price increase I will let it expire next Spring.
For the nostalgic:
That VPS originally came from "YDGH", which belonged to member @Corey. "YDGH" stood for "your domain goes here". I have had that VPS for about 10 years.
Probably all of them. I mean, is there anyone working in the industry who is making the same amount as they were last year?
Most employees don't become more and more productive year after year. Wage increases are for inflation.
I disagree. I have employees who are MUCH more valuable at their jobs after a year, two years... 10 years.... they know the organization and the people - that experience simply can't be replaced indiscriminately for the wage we paid them when they started. Their increases are to retain them because they're worth more to the organization today than they were when they started.
DEFT (aka ServerCentral) is raising prices 8% starting October 1st, 2022:
$220/hour for remote hands? Insane
And that is "inexpensive" compared to Equinix rates.
Since March, I've also seen pricing updates from:
Some have annually increased prices at roughly the same rate (e.g., Leaseweb). Dediserve was the largest I've seen at 19.5% for some services. Many more have not announced any price increases.
Hmm... Will cPanel / WHMCS also increase price as usual?
Of course. Electricity went up on their shared hosting lol
Hostslick too (Mar 29, 2022), but only for dedi and colo services so far. Price for dedicated servers increased for 9 euros.
All others services like Shared and VPS Hosting are not affected (yet). <-- "yet" part is from their mail, not my addon
With price increase they doubled bandwidth for all dedi clients: "Since Bandwidth does not put the cost up for us like Power and being said, we have more capacity then used to cover everything, we will now offer double bandwidth on all Dedicated Servers."
Time4VPS announced their price hikes on July 19.
Sounds like a way for the company to try and show a compromise.
There's a great Korean BBQ restaurant near me that has increased their menu pricing by 20%. They've increased the quantity of the food (definitely not 20% more) to a point where it's trying to justify/recognize that everyone's hurting.
But damn. They have some of the highest quality beef around.
Yes, that's why in all fairness I highlighted this important part from their long mail.
Yes but obviously there may be another increase for dedis and colo as power prices may Raise again drastically. We will see October in DC2 and April for DC1
We will however review deep Discount dedis first and maybe only increase those. There is still good demand on servers at normal price. I think that may already re-coup the thousands of €€ per month extra cost the Power price increase will cost us (if it is the Power price I expect. We made calculations already and plans to protect ourself from this crisis)
Will see.
I played and calculated trough few scenarios.
But it will not he massive or worrying
And maybe we will just suck it up. It all depends of the amount of increase. We will see as said.
Oh SC's got a new name?
When did that happen?
yes, normally in Jan.
Are you aware by pre-paying service in advance, example: 6 months/1 Year, possible to keep the price till service renewal (subject to providers terms and conditions)
is everyone forgetting inflation after covid?
ServerCentral a few years ago merged with the Turing Group and became ServerCentral Turing Group. Then in May 2021 they renamed to DEFT.
Are you thinking about increasing your prices?
@servarica_hani @hosthatch @VirMach @Francisco @terrahost @perennate @jar @MikePT @Abd @dustinc @FlorinMarian
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Sad thing about this is that they wont decrease prices if/when the price of electricity goes down
Why would they tell their strategic plans in public, this only serves their direct competitors.
Also, don't give them ideas
There are many "hidden ways" to increase prices without actually changing the numbers.
Such as, ignoring Moore's law and keep the same specs for many years ahead, etc.
Remember that a decade ago we used to say that a 1GB vps for $7 was a good deal?
Should've been "[asking for a friend]"
Just like providers calculate profits, consumers calculate budgets. Being open and honest about your prices is important to see where the low-end market is going and why.
So far it seems electricity drives the prices up like crazy, and I would be lying to just put a mask on and appear like somehow I manage to ignore the situation and the mess we are in.
Hell no! I am deeply concerned about energy prices.
All of them, especially low-end hosts, and especially in the EU due to the electricity prices.
Providers need to at least keep up with inflation, otherwise they're effectively getting paid less money (well, same money but it has less buying power) year-over-year for the same product. Low-end hosts have much smaller margins than non-lowend hosts, so increases will be more noticeable.
In the USA at least, inflation has been quite high. $7 in January 2020 had the same buying power as $8.04 today. (https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm)
Some costs (like electricity) are increasing far more than inflation, which makes it worse.
We just increased by 10% on July 1st. Have not planned anything else at the moment.
Our electricity cost in our Norway datacenter June 21 vs June 22 is at a 500% increase.. But we are doing okay right now but its really eating into our profits for sure, even with the 10% increase.