Hetzner is Getting Expensive
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Lately, I’ve been watching with dread as my modest1 Hetzner server has been going up in price, month-over-month. I don’t run much on there. I’m always below the 1TB of monthly bandwidth quotas and besides backups, I’m just not seeing what I’m getting for $11.27 (€10.29) a month.
It started earlier this year when my bill came in at $9.82, which I felt was semi-reasonable. Less than $10 is not really a breaking point for me. However, it crept up. Next month was $9.88 again, a sort of rounding error in price difference. However, this month jumped to $11.27, and I can’t seem to figure out why. The server is hosted here in the US, which I understand there are… reasons… for price hikes here, but $1.29 increase for changing nothing? That’s not cool.
Digging into it, it seems like the rate of the CPX11 instance jumped from €0.0063 per hour to €0.0072 per hour. This means that it went from €3.85 per month, to €4.49 per month, which then increases the backup costs of 20% of the final cost per month in kind.
Hetzner has been a very good host. I’ve had little to no problems with their service and would recommend them to anyone looking for a quick and easy way to get a VPS started. However, for me, I may be going back to hosting on my little Raspberry Pi 3b, or saving up for a RPi5 and hosting on that via VPN or CloudFlare tunnels. I don’t like that idea, but I also don’t like having to pony up more for the same amount of service.
Damn I hate this year.
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