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Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers

1 points by esher ↗ HN
Since October 1 the OVH price increase also applies to running dedicated servers, at next renewal. A Reddit user posted that their two servers went up 54% in 11 months, no grandfathering.

OVH's own post: an Advance-1 Gen 2024 renews at $114.99 instead of $89.99 (+28%). RAM options on new orders are up 68% to 652%, the Game range up to 87%. The stated reason is DDR5 costing six times what it did a year ago.

Hetzner did the same in February and June, both threads had 500+ points here.

I run a small PHP hosting company, so I am biased. But I wonder: Who here still runs OVH or Hetzner dedicated boxes?

Sources:

https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en/posts/dedicated-servers-pricing-update-h2-2026/

https://itdaily.com/news/cloud/ovhcloud-price-increase-ram/

https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/1wvfu5i

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844

8 comments

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dabinat
I can’t speak for OVH specifically but I’ve recently been moving more and more jobs from AWS to my own hardware. I bought a couple of servers with older hardware (DDR4) and they’re way faster than what I was paying quite a lot of money for from AWS. The craziest part is that they pay for themselves after only two months. I wish I’d done it years ago.

So if buying hardware makes sense, go for it over renting a server. You only pay the memory tax one time.

reacharavindh
The server/hardware is not the tricky part… networking and keeping it running 24/7 efficiently is..

Where do your two servers run from?

f646993e074382f
I'm out of the loop but colocation used to be a thing, surely that must still exist ?
reacharavindh
They are getting quite expensive.. Not sure if I can rent a colocated facility for just a couple of servers and still come out ahead of the cloud vendors these days.

If I had 100 servers to run, surely collocation would be in my favor.

rbonweb
Due to the ram and ssd price hike. all major providers has increased the price. btw which control panel you are using?