Tag: pricing

Clientexec will enforce the update window sold with Owned Licenses from version 7.2.1, and the first upgrade is the one that fails.

Part three of the Hosting Price Squeeze: a practical playbook for rising costs, from what other industries learned to what hosts are doing now.

We measured renewal multipliers across ten major hosts, 1.0x to 5.3x; entry plans renew at higher multiples than top plans across the board.

When hosting costs rise, raising prices is not your only move: when to pass it on, when to absorb it, and when to restructure your tiers.

Shared vCPU in Europe is still 60-75% cheaper than US providers. Dedicated vCPU has reached price parity. The European advantage has split.

Hetzner's CCX and CPX cloud servers rose 113-204% in 2026. The 30-37% headline applied only to entry-level shared vCPU tiers.

A few hosts promised never to raise renewal prices, through the worst hardware inflation in a decade. New renewal laws just turned that into strategy.

Hetzner is up 30-35%. OVHcloud is up 49%. Shared hosting has not moved. The hardware replacement cycle explains the delay, not immunity from the cost.

Hetzner's third price move of 2026 introduces a Limited tier and splits its dedicated portfolio. The two-tier signal may spread across European hosting.

Server DRAM prices surged over 100% in Q1 2026 as AI demand consumed fabrication capacity. Then Iranian drones hit Qatar's Ras Laffan facility in March, taking 33% of global helium supply offline - and helium is irreplaceable in chip manufacturing.