Yeah it's nuts the way the price is going up. We are going to see a lot of cheap hosts bring their prices up.
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Yeah it's nuts the way the price is going up. We are going to see a lot of cheap hosts bring their prices up.
Even for hardware they've already purchased, or are they just renting new capacity from bigger players?
From what I've seen, the smaller hosts are either colocating a few U of servers or renting from a bigger player and splitting that into VMs. What's rough for them is that one of the cheap DDOS protection providers, Neoprotect isn't providing the service anymore(https://neoprotect.statuspage.io/incidents/kdmtx0wk3h1l) because Neoprotect's own provider cut them off. Add the rising cost of RAM and any of the providers who did super cheap servers($1/mo servers etc) are going to need to raise their prices to keep their margins or they'll be going negative.
I bought a server with 1TB of ram for like $750 about a year ago. This is a full machine(without disks tho). Now just the ram alone is worth between $1.5k to $2.5k depending on how quick I want to sell it(if I wanted to).
I don't think we'll see price changes with providers like Digital Ocean/ Hetzner/ etc. They have the scale and purchasing power to buy a ton at once. I'm talking about the actual small players. The one's who's MRR is measured in thousands at max, not millions. They are the ones who are going to suffer the most throughout this time.
Likely. I have my main domains / host with hostinger, and I paid a many years in advance a few years ago, so I think I will be able to weather the storm. :)
Domains won't be affected(directly). And Hostinger(even though I'm not a fan of them) is large enough to not be affected so you should be fine there :)
I moved away from namecheap after refused to do a simple config change for me as part of an upgrade I wanted to do. :D
Yeah, I've been slowly adding new domains at Porkbun. I need to move my old domains away from namecheap but effort.