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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.
Guys, it is pretty clear from above that the provider prefers you NOT to renew so that they can release it at current market pricing. You guys are the leeches who is eating up resources but not paying the actual price.
So maintain your self respect and move away from this provider. And next time, if this provider brings deal, remember that the deals are just temporary to onboard you into one of their packages and they will surely increase the price later.
If the price was not explicitly advertised as recurring, then it's only understandable that the price may increase, even for a promo plan. But if it was explicitly advertised as recurring, then the provider has to respect that.
I'm confused.
but
Hasn't even been a year... ?
At this point, the pattern is obvious: people who are not our clients continue jumping into threads to stir drama, make assumptions, and attack a service they’ve never used. This has become a constant issue on LET, and frankly, we’re done entertaining it.
To clarify the facts for anyone actually interested:
The only offers we ever stated would follow a fixed 5% annual increase were the $15/year and $20/year VPS plans in Lithuania and Tampa. Any client using those plans can verify that their renewal pricing is exactly $15.75/year and $21/year, reflecting the agreed 5% increase.
For other offers, We honored that for two and 3 full years while every cost in the industry went up.
For other legacy plans, we never claimed pricing would remain static indefinitely. When the $65/year plan increased to $90/year, we still provided an early‑renewal option at $75/year as a courtesy. We have consistently been transparent with our actual customers.
What we will not continue dealing with is the constant hostility, misinformation, and low‑end behavior from people who have never been our clients. LET has increasingly attracted low‑end pricing expectations, low‑end drama, and unfortunately a high volume of spam, abuse, and illegal activity from the same crowd. It’s not an environment that encourages any serious provider to participate.
This will be our final reply on the matter.
We will not be posting any future offers on LET. We have no interest in continuing to attract low‑end clients or engaging with non‑customers who contribute nothing but noise.
We’ll continue focusing on our actual clients — the ones who use the service, understand its value, and communicate professionally.
Please don't let a few drama seekers ruin things. These threads will die off, and the people who use your services will continue to know that it's a good service, even if the MJJs will continue to complain about a dollar here and there.
Hmm, mine still says $20/year. Maybe it will show $21 at the next renewal? Either way, it's a great price and is worth it.
And now the actual intention comes out (and insult to the community was a bit unexpected but since provider is leaving LET, so he obviously doesn't care).
Above further clarifies that, after building the customer base, these low end customers are one of those unwanted things which you want to get rid off but reputation is also something that shouldn't be tarnished. The customers from this community are NOT targeted customer anymore and hence it is useless to keep them on the platform.
As @totally_not_banned stated:
Since the provider have evolved, the business has changed and so is focus. This low end community is just full of spammers, abusers and full of illegal activity.
On a more serious note, I'll probably renew. SolidVPS is actually really solid. I actually have production/projects main hosted on it.
Pricing increase does suck, but I get it. Not as bad with Terabit buying Enzonix, getting email price will stay, then when I contact support about billing not being right, I get a middle finger saying that it was only until renewal. So yes it really did change. Don't say in the email it's not.
I just got the same email for the Labor Day 2025 special. Hard to believe September 2025 is considered legacy already.
@hostsailor didn't increase and other providers also didn't, so I guess its time to say goodbye to them...
anyhow, it's gonna come hard time for small players, a lot will close doors because of greed and hope to be competition for others who actually afford to make less money but constant incoming
@SolidVPS can I request price lock in my dedi since I turn it off from time to time.
First of all, stop acting like a whiney politian, its beyond sad.
So where is this stated 5% annual increase? its not in your page, not in the thread. Let alone that this was in 2025 as far as i can tell.
The labor day 2025 post was supposed to be recurring pricing, but given the screenshot posted here, that was a false. As one would expect at least 1 renewal at that price given the statement.
stop complaining that others are at fault for your decisions, holy fuck, you came here lmao