Netcup price increase - Rampocalypse
AnthonySmith
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https://forum.netcup.de/thread/21892-rampocalypse-we-need-to-talk-about-pricing/?pageNo=1
The tl;dr
What does this mean in concrete terms?
Existing contracts: +18.51%
New contracts: +24.33%
Local Block Storage and Server Storage (existing and new contracts): +21.52%
Comments
Price increases seem to be a recent trend in the industry
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Wage increases in the industry less so.
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Pretty much what it says, but they also said that everyone concerned will receive an email about this
Basically, the price will increase by this percentage at the time of your next bill (i.e., at the end of the current billing period for the service in question), but not before May 1st
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
The wild part is not the increase but the contract stuff. Supplier reneging on signed contracts for a quick buck is wild
Yes, it would make much more PR sense to apply the price increase at the time of the renewal of the present contract (instead of applying it at the time of the next bill)
That said, in many cases, the contract period and the billing period coincide
(If this is what you mean)
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Yea, terrible, 7$/y was my lifeblood, now its dying.
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No I meant the part where their supplier threatened to walk away from a signed contract unless given more money
Right. I would have thought that there would be negative legal consequences for the supplier in this case. As you say, it's wild
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
It may have been done to them upstream, and each level of the contract chain may have a "force majure" clause, which, in simple terms, means. something got fucked, it can't be unfucked, we can't contract any more, sorry.
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I received an email from netcup less than two hours ago (which gives the new prices that I'll pay)
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
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