Hetzner Black Friday Price Increase Surprise

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• 10thHouse Member

  December 2024 edited December 2024

  @Levi said:

  @10thHouse said:

  @network said:

  @s_jc said:
  I ended up canceling the cheap ($15/mo) Hetzner VM I had due to this. The price increase is minor, but the traffic is what got me. I didn't use a huge amount of traffic, but I could see a couple TBs a month, just enough to worry about the limit. The support experience also was fairly mediocre, not sure why people seem to like their support, unless it's a situation where it's a choice between bad and worse?

  @10thHouse said:

  @s_jc said:
  I ended up canceling the cheap ($15/mo) Hetzner VM I had due to this. The price increase is minor, but the traffic is what got me. I didn't use a huge amount of traffic, but I could see a couple TBs a month, just enough to worry about the limit. The support experience also was fairly mediocre, not sure why people seem to like their support, unless it's a situation where it's a choice between bad and worse?

  I also cancelled my Hetzner services after this price increase. The company seems to be coasting off of their name recognition rather than competitive specs or pricing. Time to move on.

  What did you both switch to?

  Moved my stuff to dedicated servers from @crunchbits and VPS from IncogNET ( @MannDude )

  Two companies I already liked for their reliability and having the right values.

  What was wrong with incog?

  I moved from Hetzner to Crunchbits and IncogNET. I didn't mean to imply that I moved away from IncogNET.

  Thanked by 2MannDude adly
• NobodyInteresting Member

  December 2024

  @lowendtalkxdax said:
  In reality, this will only affect less than 0.1% of their userbase
  And this 0.1% userbase is abusing their network, creating 50% of the transit costs

  (Randomly guessed numbers, you get what i mean)

  You say abusing their network...
  Do you mean - utilizing the bandwidth that we are paying for? How is that abuse?
• quicksilver03 Member, Host Rep

  December 2024

  @vipeweb said:
  I'm leaving Hetzner, it's a shame, I was enjoying it, I'm not asking for a price increase

  I decided to leave too, I wasn't concerned by the bandwidth limitation since I was consuming less than 50GB last month but the price increase combined with the bandwidth reduction reads to me like a downsizing of their US operations.
• unsafetypin Member

  December 2024

  @MikePT said:

  @NobodyInteresting said:

  @bobert said:
  So what are some suitable replacements?

  Can anyone come close to the uptime and hardware for the price? I know nobody can probably offer 20 tb, but what about 5 tb?

  I will be migrating to @Clouvider
  Comparable specs, double bandwidth for BF when commenting, so 10TB, and super reliable.
  Hetzner has lost all credibility with me, and I will be closing my account with them.

  Clouvider is great and their bandwidth is premium.

  I did exactly this.

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• unsafetypin Member

  December 2024

  @NobodyInteresting said:

  @lowendtalkxdax said:
  In reality, this will only affect less than 0.1% of their userbase
  And this 0.1% userbase is abusing their network, creating 50% of the transit costs

  (Randomly guessed numbers, you get what i mean)

  You say abusing their network...
  Do you mean - utilizing the bandwidth that we are paying for? How is that abuse?

  This is an interesting recent development on here where some people seem to feel that people should tread lightly with how they use a service and what providers seem to feel is abuse - they're entitled to feel that way but then someone might eat their lunch in the process. Within terms and conditions limits, burning bandwidth is normal and fine, if you're paying for it.

  If I was a provider I'd expect my customers to absolutely peg me and if i charge too little and cant turn a profit while I get pegged then I done messed up. I do agree with hetzner as they seem to be owning it and aren't beating around the bush on any of it, they must've just not been able to take it. Someone may come and eat their lunch. First provider on here that goes from monthly VPS/VM to hourly elastic or "cloud" style services could do super well in the US.

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• zekawalker213 Member

  December 2024

  Why so few?