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That still has 1GB of ram. There are VPS with 64 mb of ram...
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MS said:
The lack of (quality) YABS in the last 10 days tells me there were no great deals in the Christmas + New Year Megathread at LET.
True and honestly, with today’s prices for RAM, storage, CPUs, and everything else in the mix, it’s becoming extremely hard to deliver good services under $10/month.
As for $10/year deals, those depend almost entirely on how much the host is willing (or able) to sustain on he's own. At that point, it’s less about sustainability and more about marketing or goodwill.
2026 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for hosting ( and not just hosting in my view ). I highly doubt electricity prices in the EU will drop below €0.40–0.50/kWh in any decent datacenter. Hardware prices aren’t helping either; DDR4 is already getting more expensive week by week on eBay, and I won’t even mention DDR5 or ECC variants.
Drives that hurt most of us ( us included ) are only going one way: up. ( fuck, shit, and I kinda ran out of nice words )
So yeah… buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a hell of a ride 🙂
My view of the 10 USD / Year VPS:
Loss leaders
Stock liquidation
Sponsored by extra cash or hardware (paid-off hardware, free colo, or personal DC access)
respect for those that own their own DC, but even then, they will cramp up ~150 customers on a 2 soket server just to make 30-40% of the expense / mo as profit. ( for the sub 10USD / year offers )
It’s just how the math works once you strip the romance out of it.
MS said:
The lack of (quality) YABS in the last 10 days tells me there were no great deals in the Christmas + New Year Megathread at LET.
True and honestly, with today’s prices for RAM, storage, CPUs, and everything else in the mix, it’s becoming extremely hard to deliver good services under $10/month.
As for $10/year deals, those depend almost entirely on how much the host is willing (or able) to sustain on he's own. At that point, it’s less about sustainability and more about marketing or goodwill.
2026 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for hosting ( and not just hosting in my view ). I highly doubt electricity prices in the EU will drop below €0.40–0.50/kWh in any decent datacenter. Hardware prices aren’t helping either; DDR4 is already getting more expensive week by week on eBay, and I won’t even mention DDR5 or ECC variants.
Drives that hurt most of us ( us included ) are only going one way: up. ( fuck, shit, and I kinda ran out of nice words )
So yeah… buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a hell of a ride 🙂
My view of the 10 USD / Year VPS:
Loss leaders
Stock liquidation
Sponsored by extra cash or hardware (paid-off hardware, free colo, or personal DC access)
respect for those that own their own DC, but even then, they will cramp up ~150 customers on a 2 soket server just to make 30-40% of the expense / mo as profit. ( for the sub 10USD / year offers )
It’s just how the math works once you strip the romance out of it.
Yeah curious someone has said that Ram is absolutely insanely extremely expensive so they cannot afford to buy it and there is not option to grow at this prices. In fact if I am not wrong the entire server investment is lower than a new powerful RAM or something like that......curious what is going to happen next? May be really higher pricing or monopoly of the old big players etc
I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.
MS said:
The lack of (quality) YABS in the last 10 days tells me there were no great deals in the Christmas + New Year Megathread at LET.
True and honestly, with today’s prices for RAM, storage, CPUs, and everything else in the mix, it’s becoming extremely hard to deliver good services under $10/month.
As for $10/year deals, those depend almost entirely on how much the host is willing (or able) to sustain on he's own. At that point, it’s less about sustainability and more about marketing or goodwill.
2026 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for hosting ( and not just hosting in my view ). I highly doubt electricity prices in the EU will drop below €0.40–0.50/kWh in any decent datacenter. Hardware prices aren’t helping either; DDR4 is already getting more expensive week by week on eBay, and I won’t even mention DDR5 or ECC variants.
Drives that hurt most of us ( us included ) are only going one way: up. ( fuck, shit, and I kinda ran out of nice words )
So yeah… buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a hell of a ride 🙂
My view of the 10 USD / Year VPS:
Loss leaders
Stock liquidation
Sponsored by extra cash or hardware (paid-off hardware, free colo, or personal DC access)
respect for those that own their own DC, but even then, they will cramp up ~150 customers on a 2 soket server just to make 30-40% of the expense / mo as profit. ( for the sub 10USD / year offers )
It’s just how the math works once you strip the romance out of it.
Yeah curious someone has said that Ram is absolutely insanely extremely expensive so they cannot afford to buy it and there is not option to grow at this prices. In fact if I am not wrong the entire server investment is lower than a new powerful RAM or something like that......curious what is going to happen next? May be really higher pricing or monopoly of the old big players etc
I presume it will be a complete shit-show price-wise for the next 1–3 months, as usual. Speculation is doing its thing — some will gain from it, some will lose.
If nothing new hits the market, I expect things to stabilize around March–April, at least from a pricing perspective.
Expense-wise though? No clue. What I can say is that even new contracts signed in December came with +5–15% increases across the board — network, colo, electricity, remote hands, and related services. I’ve confirmed this with others as well, so this is firmly in the “shit will unfold at some point” bucket.
As an example, 512 DDR4 ECC ( sticks of 64 GB ) @ 2933 that we use are actually 2x the price ~6-7 mo ago, but that price is pure speculation driven right now from where I am standing, so I would wait a bit to get hardware right now, unless it is crucial for the business.
Tho the same R740XD2 chassy is also ~25% more expensive then 6 mo ago, on that one I do not get it
Yes if the provider offer ddr4/5 and new epyc/ryzen, but here will be ddr3 ram with e5v4 for 8$/m and talking how expensive is the ram and hosting overall..
Yes if the provider offer ddr4/5 and new epyc/ryzen, but here will be ddr3 ram with e5v4 for 8$/m and talking how expensive is the ram and hosting overall..
True, and yes those might work and yes, RAM might be as expensive as the whole server ( no drives ).
I just forgot about the E5-VX Line, I am trying to put it in the past forever, but yeah, you might see services on older hw popping up on the promos.
We shall see
EDIT:
E5-V1 and V2 for DDR3, for E5-V3 and V4 you need DDR4.
Also AMD Ryzen 3/5/7/9 on DDR4 got 2x as expensive as I read, but that might be speculation
Also, this discussion made me realize something: DDR4 ECC can end up almost as expensive as DDR5, simply because it spans a much wider range of platforms than DDR5 ever did.
From:
E5-v3
E5-v4
Xeon Scalable Gen 1
Xeon Scalable Gen 2
That’s a huge installed base still actively in production.
Hail for those sitting on a few PB of DDR4 sticks, now it is your time to shine make some $$$$
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They restarted the server with fix for io and now it looks a lot better
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I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
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Rarecloud 8€/y Japan, hw is old, not worth it imho , good for proxy,vpn coz latency is little bit better than others..
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Pretty sure that should be about 1k GB5, its either throttled or oversold.
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That still has 1GB of ram. There are VPS with 64 mb of ram...
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Runs RHEL just because I can have it on there lmfao
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WoW
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The lack of (quality) YABS in the last 10 days tells me there were no great deals in the Christmas + New Year Megathread at LET.
True and honestly, with today’s prices for RAM, storage, CPUs, and everything else in the mix, it’s becoming extremely hard to deliver good services under $10/month.
As for $10/year deals, those depend almost entirely on how much the host is willing (or able) to sustain on he's own. At that point, it’s less about sustainability and more about marketing or goodwill.
2026 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for hosting ( and not just hosting in my view ). I highly doubt electricity prices in the EU will drop below €0.40–0.50/kWh in any decent datacenter. Hardware prices aren’t helping either; DDR4 is already getting more expensive week by week on eBay, and I won’t even mention DDR5 or ECC variants.
Drives that hurt most of us ( us included ) are only going one way: up. ( fuck, shit, and I kinda ran out of nice words )
So yeah… buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a hell of a ride 🙂
My view of the 10 USD / Year VPS:
It’s just how the math works once you strip the romance out of it.
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Yeah curious someone has said that Ram is absolutely insanely extremely expensive so they cannot afford to buy it and there is not option to grow at this prices. In fact if I am not wrong the entire server investment is lower than a new powerful RAM or something like that......curious what is going to happen next? May be really higher pricing or monopoly of the old big players etc
I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.
I presume it will be a complete shit-show price-wise for the next 1–3 months, as usual. Speculation is doing its thing — some will gain from it, some will lose.
If nothing new hits the market, I expect things to stabilize around March–April, at least from a pricing perspective.
Expense-wise though? No clue. What I can say is that even new contracts signed in December came with +5–15% increases across the board — network, colo, electricity, remote hands, and related services. I’ve confirmed this with others as well, so this is firmly in the “shit will unfold at some point” bucket.
As an example, 512 DDR4 ECC ( sticks of 64 GB ) @ 2933 that we use are actually 2x the price ~6-7 mo ago, but that price is pure speculation driven right now from where I am standing, so I would wait a bit to get hardware right now, unless it is crucial for the business.
Tho the same R740XD2 chassy is also ~25% more expensive then 6 mo ago, on that one I do not get it
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“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Yes if the provider offer ddr4/5 and new epyc/ryzen, but here will be ddr3 ram with e5v4 for 8$/m and talking how expensive is the ram and hosting overall..
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True, and yes those might work and yes, RAM might be as expensive as the whole server ( no drives ).
I just forgot about the E5-VX Line, I am trying to put it in the past forever, but yeah, you might see services on older hw popping up on the promos.
We shall see
EDIT:
E5-V1 and V2 for DDR3, for E5-V3 and V4 you need DDR4.
Also AMD Ryzen 3/5/7/9 on DDR4 got 2x as expensive as I read, but that might be speculation
Host-C | Storage by Design | AS211462
“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Also, this discussion made me realize something: DDR4 ECC can end up almost as expensive as DDR5, simply because it spans a much wider range of platforms than DDR5 ever did.
From:
E5-v3
E5-v4
Xeon Scalable Gen 1
Xeon Scalable Gen 2
That’s a huge installed base still actively in production.
Hail for those sitting on a few PB of DDR4 sticks, now it is your time to shine
make some $$$$
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“If it can’t guarantee behavior under load, it doesn’t belong in production.”
Online 5€/m dedibox in France fresh reinstall
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