It does seem this was done to bring GBP/USD pricing back to parity with EUR/USD and is only an issue if you resided in the UK and need to spend GBP. The SP-32

It does seem this was done to bring GBP/USD pricing back to parity with EUR/USD and is only an issue if you resided in the UK and need to spend GBP. The SP-32 server was 48.99 GBP which is 60.65 USD via ovh.co.uk while the same server could be ordered for 69.99 EUR or 72.57 USD via ovh.ie.