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[Prepaid-Host] Price adjustment on older promo root servers — effective 1 Aug 2026
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Heads-up for the Prepaid-Host customers here. I'm posting this myself rather than letting it get "discovered" — you'll see the emails anyway, so here's the full thing, numbers and reasoning included.
What's changing
We're adjusting the price of some of our older promo root server plans — mainly the RAM-heavy ones (26 GB and up), plus a few older 20–24 GB promos. Renewals only, nothing changes for a period you've already paid for, and nothing goes up by more than ~35 %. The smaller 16 GB promos we adjusted recently stay untouched.
| Plan (KVM, 1 IPv4 incl.) | old | new |
|---|---|---|
| 26 GB / 6 vCores | €8.99 / €9.99 | €11.99 / €13.49 |
| 20–24 GB / 6 vCores | €9.49 | €12.49 |
| 36 GB / 8 vCores | €14.99 | €18.49 |
| 48 GB / 10–12 vCores | €19.99 | €23.49 |
Effective 1 August 2026, renewals only. You can still renew at your current price before 1 August — that locks the old rate for that prepaid period, and yes, you can prepay a year or two upfront if you'd rather. Renewals after that move to the new price.
The why — and I'll pre-empt the obvious objection
The fair pushback is "you already own the RAM, NVMe and IPs in those nodes, so why do spot prices matter?" For the parts already installed: they don't. It's the resupply that bites — and right now nearly everything we need is scarce or up sharply at once:
- Replacements are at today's prices. A 15 TB enterprise NVMe we sourced for ~€1.4–1.8k in 2025 is €6–7k now. Every failed drive is a 3–4x hit versus what those nodes were priced around.
- Utilisation keeps climbing while machines expire. We're running well below our last peak in machine count, yet RAM/storage commit keeps rising — so we need to ADD capacity, into a market where there's no cheap capacity to add.
- Availability, not just price. The DDR4 these nodes run is being wound down toward EOL to free fab capacity for AI memory, so our exact RAM type is getting scarce, not just pricey. High-capacity enterprise NVMe is short and up 3–4x. And IPv4 is exhausted — no free RIR blocks, secondary-market only. We still bundle the IPv4 free, but all three being scarce at once is the actual squeeze.
- No new-deal bridge. Normally we'd float fresh promos on cheaper hardware and let the old ones age out — but with nothing cheap or even readily available to build on right now, that valve is gone too.
So it's replacement + utilisation + cash flow, not "the DIMMs in your VM appreciated." Nudging the oldest, most RAM-dense promos up is what frees the resources to keep serving everyone who stays — at the same specs.
No new hidden fees. IPv4 stays bundled at no charge. And prepaid stays prepaid — no contract, no notice period, nothing auto-charging you that you can't stop. If the new price doesn't fit, just let it expire; if it's an idler, honestly that's the capacity we most want back right now. "Vote with your wallet" is a completely legit move here and it costs you nothing.
Will you drop prices again when RAM/NAND normalises?
Straight answer: we won't retroactively cut an existing plan. When hardware gets cheaper again we do what we've always done — post fresh deals, open to existing customers too, you just migrate your own data. Promising a rollback would be the dishonest answer, so I won't.
That's the whole picture. Ask away — I'll answer straight.
— Christopher, Prepaid-Host
Comments
Thanks for the wall of text generated by AI.
This really shows how much you value your customers.
prepare for battle
let's hope your claude subscription price doesn't go higher or you might charge us more only to talk to us.
ai slop
depending on Claude version its acceptable, those Claude fable tokens ain't cheap.
Who needs AI it’s destroying LET deals
Tokens might be expensive but the talk isn't for sure
That's why they are increasing the service costs so they can keep afford paying for AI
Price Increase on Recurring Dealz Hall of Predatoriness
And so, by posting AI slop totally unnecessarily, you're exacerbating the problem. Thanks.
Oh so they use "adjustment"
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imo this was a bigger problem than their price increase or some AI slop. I know that most LET users care more about pricing than anything else...
Notice that @PrepaidHost tried to play it off as though they're just preventing spam, yet they were including compilers (and who knows what else) in their scans
I would never have anything to do with this company.
Agreed. I mean the reason this works is kind of on the user (always install from iso, netboot, diskimage, whatever and ideally encrypt your disk while your at it or if that's really too much work at least remove shit like qemu-guest-agent) but peeking into users systems is still a major breach of trust in my opinion. If it's a single user system there might even be sensitive data among the dumped commandlines...
If spam is such a big problem just block port 25. Most users serious about mailing will use an external service anyways and if not even just requiring an explanation via ticket before unblocking the port will likely reduce abuse by a lot.
Hell, they could even setup a local relay for clients to use and keep port 25 blocked entirely. In my opinion that would be a very neat solution. They get to monitor mail volume and users don't have to deal with setting up a MTA. It could pretty much be made into a feature.
You don't accidentally match processes like
gccorqbittorrent-nox. And it would be obviously be an ineffective way to prevent spam. The thought of relying on a simple "match name of evil executable" to prevent anything malicious is laughable. To be blunt, I think their entire explanation was bullshitI don't always spam but when i spam i'll 100% use a torrent client
lol wtf
You don't mask qemu-guest-agent? That's on you then.
You aren't sending email spam using
gcc? Pleb.Should have use
catdamnit... I should've had AI write this