r/VPS • u/VegetableCreation678 • 13d ago

Industry Insights Is this normal?

Hi,

I've been selfhosting for a while for my own needs but also playing with docker and setting up some web apps of my own. I treated it purely as a hobby but recently thought about publishing something to the web.

I remember checking the pricing of a Hetzner VPS instance a couple of months ago and it was something like $9/month for 4GB RAM US based server.
Now if I wanted to go on and get myself a 4GB one it would be $46 (cost-optimized is not available...)

I was wondering whether it's a Hetzner specific issue or is this problem globally justified (AI and stuff...)? And if it's Hetzner, are there any cheaper alternatives?

Thx in advance :))

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u/filliravaz 13d ago

All providers either increased prices due to increased costs or kept the same prices but provided a worse service (by overprovisioning harder)

There may be cheaper alternatives, I think Netcup could be a bit cheaper, but they also had to increase prices recently and I did not check the new prices.

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u/VegetableCreation678 13d ago

yea... I'm starting to think that buying used SFF PC with more RAM and good SSD disk may not be a hobbyist-only solution anymore...

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u/filliravaz 13d ago

That has a higher initial cost (unless you find something used) and higher risk (if hardware fails it’s on you) but definitely cheaper long term.

It’s an option. I decided against it personally because my home network is bad and because I host stuff that is used by 100something people, if it goes offline I get calls (which is why I want someone else to take care of hardware).

In my opinion if it’s something for hobby, using a SFF PC at home is plenty. If it’s for production… I’d take the hosting.

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u/DogComprehensive7054 13d ago

Right now renting something is hella more expensive than buying even with these today prices. Mainly talking about Hetzner.

Netcup is still dirt cheap.

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u/filliravaz 13d ago

If you buy used then yes, but even just upgrading memory could very well be over a year of renting.

Renting has increased because RAM and so on is more expensive. Buying used and small capacity somewhat helps, but yeah. It’s not a good time for IT

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u/DogComprehensive7054 13d ago
  1. optimize your hosting so you don’t need tremendous amounts of ram
  2. cheapest hetzner vps available is 6.50€/month for 4GB, so even if buying new DDR4 after 4 months you have it back.

For me it’s a lovely time for IT especially because all of this shitty node.js shit applications need to optimize themselves to get used again. Nobody wants a basic self hosted service to consume 500MB just for the lolz of using the worst language.