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Your traffic bill is increasing by 471% and that's not OK. Bill increases don't have to be catastrophic to be bad. Remember that businesses/startups range from

by deskr 2y ago

Your traffic bill is increasing by 471% and that's not OK. Bill increases don't have to be catastrophic to be bad. Remember that businesses/startups range from being well funded to not-funded-at-all-trying-to-survive. Depending on the country, 20€ can be a lot of money.

ragall 2y ago
Yes,that is OK. It's still much cheaper than the alternatives.
- pixl97 2y ago
  Ya if you're on the cheapest service and and the next cheapest service is an order of magnitude higher or more then your business is already at risk. It's a sign that it's subsidized and that a pricing shock will happen in the future.
  - ghaff 2y ago
    If it’s a competitive market you’re almost certainly exploiting some sort of anomaly that t will probably go away.
rollcat 2y ago
This. We got hit by a sudden change in a popular SaaS' pricing, from $10 to $75/mo - a 650% increase. We don't have a big margin, if a different provider did this sort of thing overnight, we could be instantly out of business. It's already difficult to build a competitive business even WITH the ability to outsource a class of problems to a SaaS. I've been a big fan of Hetzner for the last decade, and I understand and agree with their motivation for this change. However December 1st is effectively almost tomorrow, they could have easily given us a month's notice instead.
- christophilus 2y ago
  You have until Feb for your existing infra, so that seems fair to me.
baq 2y ago
> Your traffic bill is increasing by 471% and that's not OK. Your traffic bill is increasing by 20 bucks per month and that isn’t ok? If you’re running any sort of business and that isn’t ok I’m not sure what to tell you.
- deskr 2y ago
  I've worked for a startup in my early years that was on a shoestring budget. We had no spare money. When we celebrated a big goal we bought a supermarket cake for $2 to go with the coffee. That happened max few times a year. 20 bucks is nothing when you have a lot. But if you have nothing then 20 bucks can be everything.

by deskr 2y ago

ragall 2y ago

Yes,that is OK. It's still much cheaper than the alternatives.

pixl97 2y ago
Ya if you're on the cheapest service and and the next cheapest service is an order of magnitude higher or more then your business is already at risk. It's a sign that it's subsidized and that a pricing shock will happen in the future.
- ghaff 2y ago
  If it’s a competitive market you’re almost certainly exploiting some sort of anomaly that t will probably go away.

rollcat 2y ago

This. We got hit by a sudden change in a popular SaaS' pricing, from $10 to $75/mo - a 650% increase. We don't have a big margin, if a different provider did this sort of thing overnight, we could be instantly out of business. It's already difficult to build a competitive business even WITH the ability to outsource a class of problems to a SaaS. I've been a big fan of Hetzner for the last decade, and I understand and agree with their motivation for this change. However December 1st is effectively almost tomorrow, they could have easily given us a month's notice instead.

christophilus 2y ago
You have until Feb for your existing infra, so that seems fair to me.

baq 2y ago

> Your traffic bill is increasing by 471% and that's not OK. Your traffic bill is increasing by 20 bucks per month and that isn’t ok? If you’re running any sort of business and that isn’t ok I’m not sure what to tell you.

deskr 2y ago
I've worked for a startup in my early years that was on a shoestring budget. We had no spare money. When we celebrated a big goal we bought a supermarket cake for $2 to go with the coffee. That happened max few times a year. 20 bucks is nothing when you have a lot. But if you have nothing then 20 bucks can be everything.