Wow. That sucks. hcloud was great for ages and highly competitively priced.

Vultr may be a good alternative. If you want to search VPS prices across the 6 major clouds (gcloud, aws-cli, hcloud, az, doctl, and vultr-cli) I made a wrapper TUI that lets you search, sort, and rent VPS.

See it here: https://tui.bluedot.ink

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embedding-shape a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Vultr may be a good alternative

I feel like a huge selling point of Hetzner is that they're based in Europe, and they're themselves citing that as the reason for a huge uptick in sales and new users. In that context, I don't Vultr is a realistic alternative.

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keepamovin a day ago | parent [-]

OK, I never thought of it like that. It was always a price thing. For a while Vultr and Hetzner were much better value per unit.

What's behind the European push?

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embedding-shape a day ago | parent [-]

> What's behind the European push?

Obviously the US pushing absolutely everyone away and making EU and Europe the new enemy, so now we here want to reciprocate that and feel the need to move away from US infrastructure ASAP.

Personally I've been on a personal quest to minimize my usage of US-based services for many years already, but right now it's even part of the mainstream conversations, so seems to be ramping up, finally.

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keepamovin a day ago | parent [-]

Is this voting with dollars (euros) due to views, or is there a regulatory reason to avoid US providers in Europe?

	▲	embedding-shape a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For clients, I just do what they wish to do, and a bunch of them want to move to European infrastructure because they've seen what can happen when you rely on US infrastructure today, and don't want it to happen to them. Only one so far cited regulatory reasons, and I think they were misinformed, but helped them out anyways with it. Personally I do it because it's better aligned with what kind of future I want, and not wanting to support hyper-captalism environments anymore.
	▲	s_dev 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Cloud Act directly conflicts with GDPR. To really rub salt in the wound Trump overtly threatening to invade the EU (Greenland) basically turned the whole of Europe off seeing the US as a reliable ally. I don't think Americans have caught up to how much damage he has done to the image of the US amongst allies. They seem blissfully unaware of what's happening. Of course there are plenty of astute Americans who are aware but not the public at large.

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pier25 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I would be very surprised if all hosting providers didn’t increase their prices eventually.

	▲	moooo99 a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is it. Hetzner has always been very price competitive in its existence. Given the private ownership, I din‘t expect this to be a sudden outburst of greed, but to actually reflect rising costs. If a provider has higher margins, they may choose to eat some of the cost. But I would not expect that to be the case across the board