News and reviews
Not a news feed for its own sake: every piece answers a question that comes up when choosing a server. A separate section is set aside for price changes in the catalog
The Same H100 Costs $2.89 or $11.06 an Hour — Why GPU Rentals Vary Fourfold
In October 2026 the same NVIDIA H100 rents from $2.89 to over $11 an hour depending on the provider — a near-fourfold gap that matters more than which GPU you pick.
Nebius Raises On-Demand GPU Prices Up to 21% From October 1: What an H100 Hour Now Costs
Nebius lifted pay-as-you-go GPU rates up to 21% on October 1 — H100 to $4.50 an hour, B300 to $9.50 — the second rise since spring as AI capacity sells out.
Denmark Sends Data Centres to the Back of the Power Queue: What Europe's Grid Squeeze Does to Hosting Cost
Denmark's new grid law, effective October 12, ranks data centres last for power — what Europe's grid squeeze means for where cheap hosting lands.
AMD EPYC 'Venice' Brings 256 Cores at $14,904: What a New Server Generation Does to Your vCPU Price
AMD's 256-core 6th-gen EPYC 'Venice' launched September 29 at up to $14,904 — here is what the generation jump does to the hardware cost behind each vCPU.
OVHcloud Unbundles Public Cloud on October 1: Local Disk and IPv4 Add Up to 22% to Small Instances
From October 1, 2026 OVHcloud bills local storage and the public IPv4 separately from its Gen-3 instances, lifting the smallest ones by up to 21.9%.
Enterprise SSD Orders Rise for Q4 2026 as NAND Runs 10–15% Higher a Quarter
U.S. cloud providers just lifted their Q4 enterprise SSD orders and NAND contract prices are up 10–15% a quarter — the flash squeeze is reaching the VPS disk line.
netcup Raises Root Server Prices by Up to 110% — the RAM Shortage Reaches a Second Round of Invoices
From September 22 netcup lifted root server prices up to 110% and VPS up to 40%, and trimmed disk on some plans — what it costs now and what to do.
Dedicated vCPU Runs About 75% More Than Shared: When the Premium Pays for Itself
On DigitalOcean a dedicated-core plan costs about 75% more than a shared one at the same vCPU and RAM. Here is when the steadier CPU is worth the difference.
A 30TB Enterprise SSD Now Costs $22,600 — What the Storage Squeeze Does to Your VPS Disk
Enterprise SSDs now run about 18.6x a hard drive per terabyte and nearline HDD is sold out through 2027 — what that adds to your server's disk line.
Memory Makers Are Down to 10 Days of Stock — What It Does to Your VPS Bill
Samsung and SK Hynix hold under 10 days of memory inventory as HBM4 eats capacity. DRAM stays dear into 2027, NAND eases — here is the cost math.
The plan price held and the bill still rose: cloud unbundling arrives
OVHcloud's October 1 change leaves instance prices untouched and starts charging separately for local storage and the IPv4 address. Identical setups cost 1.4 to 21.9 percent more. It is worth understanding, because unbundling is the quieter way a bill goes up
Google's 396 MW geothermal deal, and the power bill under every server
Google signed the world's largest enhanced-geothermal deal, 396 MW from Fervo's Cape Station in Utah. Behind the headline is the single biggest variable in what a server costs: power. We did the arithmetic
What outbound traffic really costs: the egress line that turns a $5 server into $275
Egress is the hosting cost buyers price in last and get surprised by most. Here is how it is billed and how a 90x spread between providers actually works.
OVHcloud raises server prices by up to 87% from September as the RAM shortage reaches the invoice
OVHcloud told customers to expect renewal increases of 28 to 87 percent from September 2026, blaming a six-to-nine-fold jump in memory cost. We break down who is hit, by how much, and what a buyer counting money should do before the step
What an extra IPv4 address really costs on your server in 2026
IPv4 prices bottomed out in 2025 and are recovering in 2026; here is what a dedicated address adds to a VPS bill and when you can avoid paying for it
Why we hide plans we have not checked for a week
A stale price is more harmful than a missing one. We explain how the freshness rule works in the catalog and what happens to a plan that has not been checked in a while
NVMe vs SSD: when the difference shows and when it is overpaying
What sets NVMe apart from SATA-SSD in practice, on which tasks the difference is visible to the user, and why at some providers NVMe in the plan description guarantees nothing
What a server really costs: what is not included in the plan price
The showcase plan price and the amount on the invoice a year later diverge at most providers. We break down six items usually billed separately