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A 50% price increase is really bad
LMAO
do you maintain a site for this list sir
For a small setup, the headline jump matters less than whether the renewal price stays predictable. A rise from $99 to $149.04 is about 50%, and it is still reasonable for a dedicated box if the specs stay the same, but it changes the budget math if you planned around the old rate for two or three years. I would rather see a smaller, announced step for existing customers than a big jump at renewal, even with a quarter's notice — moving a live service just to chase the old price usually costs more in time than it saves.
Dump and move to another.
Yeah it will be better if @yoursunny put this + the IPv6 on a website~ + add the URL in your signature!
I propose that all providers rename "recurring" to "temporarily recurring" and include a disclaimer saying "Recurring until our next price increase, whenever that may be." because apparently, in the LowEnd world, recurring doesn't mean forever
How are you guys complaining about $150/year for a literal dedi??
Francisco
No i would put racknerd into it
It's not about the price or how much the increase was. It's about the principle. The offer was advertised as recurring, yet the price was increased before customers even made it through their first billing cycle. That pretty much defeats the whole point of calling it a recurring deal. At this rate, the only thing that's recurring is the price increase.
Web hosting and servers are the only thing on earth not allowed to increase pricing, didn't you get the memo?
Honestly, if 100 people cancel their $99 -> $149/yr dedi then colocrossing sells 100x $149/yr dedis before lunch. Still a stupid crazy low price for a dedicated server of any specification.
Prices going up I can live with, hardware and power aren't getting cheaper. Pulling back an invoice that was already sent and reissuing it higher is the part that would make me cancel though.
Full time job for some here to complain. No payment though.
I wont renew my colo dedi. Didn't like their old kvm access anyway.
It's a promotional offer, not their regular pricing, and I believe it was only available to a limited number of customers.
My principles say that an increase of 50% is unreasonable. I have self funded a free FOSSVPS node, but I am afraid I will have to close the node down.
In the 20 years of using various server providers, I don’t recall ever being notified of a price reduction despite of multiple opportunities to do so (for example when energy was practically free, as it was in 2020).
In fact, some times as a long-term customer, I ended up paying 10–15% more than someone ordering a new server with the exact same configuration.
Two years ago, a server with an 15 year old E3 V1 processor and 16 GB of RAM was considered electronic waste. Company had to pay to have it disposed of, so they decided to still sell them just to cover their costs. Now, they seem to think these machines are some kind of incredible treasure. Fortunately, it looks like the bubble has started to burst.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2118357540299735378
As expected.
A year and a half ago ColoCrossing was hacked with database breached. Why would anyone trust them so much as to pay 50% more? I find this quite fascinating.
according to Ernie the base services under $150 will be increased to $149/yr. So there may not be any BF server deals under $150 this year I take it.
Yes. Those points are hard to argue.... There's no winners on either side I guess. End of the day, it's still a good price for the specs offered. Yet, 50% is kinda steep imho.
I use a lot of providers. Some been adjusting pricing for new orders, some just a small % every year.
Then theres some just keeping it the way it is. Those were usually very limited loss leaders.
Guess we might see the end or recurring deals this BF.
True. That's why they should think better about the promos they're offering.
Selling 10 vms at 5/y isn't gonna bankrupt you. Problem is... Soms sell hundreds (or even more) of those. Its become a business model. When you have little to none margin to begin with you're screwed.
We can all stop using AI... Problem solved
Bit steep for an atom but I get your point
You're most probably right. And the invoice on renewal will be $199.
This is merely a temporary dip. The price will likely rise again, and this cycle will probably repeat a few times before the market shifts into a bearish phase; currently, the asset is being manipulated.
I do not anticipate hardware prices decreasing over the next few years. While I truly hope to be mistaken, we have remained hopeful for quite some time; however, it is now clear that this is not a short-term situation.
great point
Electricity costs in most urban areas in the USA have done nothing but go up and to the right.
So if you bought nice spec dedi last Friday for 139$ you'll have na increase of 10$ but if you grabbed the cheapest 16gb one for 89$ you'll have increase of 60$
Like wtf?
@jbiloh I was referring mainly to prices in Europe.
Despite the declines, there haven’t been any price reductions from providers like Hetzner, for example. On the other hand, there have been 3 or 4 increases in last years initially due to electricity costs, and subsequently due to the cost of components.
I don't think that's accurate. Electricity and gas are at a prime high (NL). Gas is going through the roof actually.
There's some dips, sure, but the overall tendency and expectations are not looking bright.
Must say I'm not following that closely as my home and office building are self sufficient.