Hetzner is one of the go-to server providers for Fediverse instances, in part due to its cheap offerings while still providing high quality service. However, Hetzner has announced a price adjustment, which has increased the prices of some servers as much as 3-4 times the original. This kind of ruins the point in using Hetzner, as the main appeal was Hetzner's cheap server prices.

Some of their servers haven't increased an insane amount, for example, the CAX41 offering has gone from €31.49 monthly to €40.99 (30% increase). Others are much higher though; CPX41 has gone from €38.99 monthly to €120.49 (209% increase)!

To any Fediverse admins using Hetzner, how would you see this affecting your instance? Will you be migrating to a different service or sticking with Hetzner even with the price hike?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe existing servers will be grandfathered in to the old price point, so that will certainly buy some time to find a potential alternative.

I personally am using Hetzner for my Mbin instance, but the price increase doesn't seem completely unreasonable for the specific server I am currently using. I do not see myself needing to rescale the server any time soon, so I should be able to keep the old price anyway.

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

Hetzner price adjustment table: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A long-time mastodon contributor is shutting down their instance - https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599

Small instances close down all the time but in this case it's not just anyone's instance.

This new environment will provide developers with an incentive to find ways to rein in their platform's storage and CPU usage.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Storage is now more important than ever. Thank you for reminding me. Mbin should auto cleanup it's old storage.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

I've been thinking about auto-unfollow, too. For example if an account hasn't logged in for 6 months they unfollow everyone and leave all communities (but preserve the records of their subscriptions so they can be automatically re-follow/joined if they log in again).

Then that one guy who subscribed to all those anime communities a year ago won't cause your instance to receive anime forever.

[–] lambisio@feddit.cl 0 points 20 hours ago

This new environment will provide developers with an incentive to find ways to rein in their platform’s storage and CPU usage.

We wish! Honestly this kind of stuff should be done in, like, C. Maybe in Fortran. Not in a "framework of the week" language.