But they cant refresh hardware already sold to customers can they?

So increasing prices on existing cutomer hardware is what, subsidising hardware refreshes elsewhere in the datacenter?

nottorp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hosting providers do not sell hardware. They rent it.

1718627440 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Often they do not actually sell you hardware servers, but VMs running on them, with designated properties.

gizzlon a day ago | parent | next [-]

Hetzner do both.. well rent, not sell, afaik

	▲	1718627440 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I ment selling time-shares, so yeah rent.

alt227 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree but this is not only easy to tell, you also specify when you buy AFAIK.

You either buy VPS or bare metal servers.