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Fwiw, @cold
Servers at 5,95/y were probably extremely limited offers. Its unsustainable for sure but a great marketing tactic to gain more clients.
I would get increasing pricing on 'cheapish' servers but killing these kinda promos will set a lot of bad blood for sure. Hosts profit from the exposure and hype it brings so the real profitable factor of these kind of plans isn't just the yearly price.
It's unreasonable to expect $5.95 forever.
Be unreasonable, demand the impossible, bend the world to your vision rather than conforming to it.
That is my motto.
It should be yours too!
You promised $5.95 and I demand $5.95. If you want to break your promise then break it by lowering the price to less than $5.95 and make it last forever unless you break it again by lowering the price further.
Who made a promise? It's an annual sale with no commitment written in contract.
It's difficult dealing with people making shit up and expecting diva service. Fuck that.
Then I demand you renew your annual sale, if you cannot renew it then provide an alternative offer to replace it and do it on better terms than the old offer and with better service too.
Time to leave them! ⛔
I understand the need for an increase
I’ll cancel mine
If you can't sustain offer A then create even less sustainable offer B... what kind of logic is that?
Was this from a promo deal explicitly advertised as recurring? Or was it just a promo deal in general?
I enjoyed a special-rate plan for a few years, and even with the recent price increase, it remains a great deal. The important thing is that it's very stable for me.
Of course, everyone understands that everything is on the rise now. It is unrealistic for the provider to continuously subsidize. They have had to return to their proper price levels.
For the super cheat $6/y plans the increase isn't that harsh but if my server suddenly jumped from 40 to 65 i'd probably also start looking for alternatives.
All the talk about market value also kind of rubs me the wrong way. It somewhat sounds less like "Hey, we need to factor in increased costs" but more like "Hey, if we sold this now we could make more money on it, so either pay up or vacate, thank you". The hardware those deals run on wasn't bought in 2026 after all and doesn't retroactively become more expensive either. The only thing that really affects those deals is operational costs (mainly power).
Their email states that this price increase applies to “the service you have had since the end of 2023 and early 2024.”
However, my VPS was purchased in September 2025, not in late 2023 or early 2024. Despite that, I still received a new invoice with the increased price.
This seems inconsistent with what was stated in the email.