Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers
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
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.
The server/hardware is not the tricky part… networking and keeping it running 24/7 efficiently is..
Where do your two servers run from?
I'm out of the loop but colocation used to be a thing, surely that must still exist ?
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.
If you're in SF Bay Area, this is worth considering: https://he.net/colocation.html
Due to the ram and ssd price hike. all major providers has increased the price. btw which control panel you are using?