As you might have seen, the costs of computers and online services are increasing sharply due to the AI/LLM bubble overwhelming supply chains.
If your friendly indie hosting provider starts increasing its prices, it probably isn't their fault and they may not have any choice.
Hosting companies rely on wholesalers of online services. If those wholesale costs go up significantly, the hosting company may have to put up their own prices just to cover their costs.
p.s. Even if you run your own self-hosted server at home, you will still see this in the sheer cost of buying hardware. Identical SSDs are costing three or four times their price a year ago, RAM chips are a similar story. Even "spinning rust" HDDs are creeping up.
There's no way of escaping the situation, it is making life difficult for every form of computing and online service. The only solution would be for the AI/LLM bubble to pop and reduce demand to a more realistic and sustainable level.
p.p.s. You can see charts of how sudden and extreme the current price increases are:
RAM
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory
SSDs & HDDs
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
These components are used by all computers including those that power online services. As the prices of components are increasing by 200-500%, it means online services' running costs are going up and so their prices will go up too.
Fair point, I've made the post a bit more committal π
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