Jerry 🦙💝🦙Feb 23
ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens😕
Show threadRenaud ChaputFeb 23
@jerry Be ready for all providers to announce some in the coming weeks, the hardware world is on fire right now thanks to OpenAI and their shenanigans to kill their competitors (and the AI bubble overall).
OVH announced a 10-15% increase as well.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Feb 23
@renchap I don't blame Hetzner, and I know they aren't the only ones. It's going to soon impact just about everything else we do online, I am guessing.
Show threadRenaud ChaputFeb 23
@jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.
Show threadohir

@renchap @jerry
> This will have a *huge* impact.

Of course it will. For instance the price of non-artificial intelligence able to optimize not only code but the architecture of systems possibly will raise too. If 672 bytes were once enough to play chess, why do we now need hundreds of millions of bytes to render a single web page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess

1K ZX Chess - Wikipedia

Feb 23 at 3:22pmWeb
Show threadJames TinmouthFeb 23
@ohir @renchap @jerry this! So much this. Maybe for a while there will be some kind of business in doing computing efficiently. Find a way to make something more efficient, save lots of £, or even enable something that looked impossible. Im here for it!