[kwlug-disc] OVH costs and prices?

[Thayen]

It's only gotten worse if you've checked their new VPS 2027 line. They basically bumped the tiers went up one tier in price (and added a smaller vps for tier 1) and erased the upper 2 tiers of the 2026 line due to the shortages. I've looked at their dedicated servers (at least the T1/T2) and what used to go for $15-20 CAD/mo has gone to $30 CAD/mo minimum.

I don't hate or even really dislike LLMs as a whole but the overbuilding that everyone, the US especially, is doing is really trying to make me change that opinion.

On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, at 15:33, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> There is now a term for this AI induced memory shortage crisis:
> 
> RAMaggedon
> 
> https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-companies-are-freaking-out-about-ramageddon/
> 
> I just checked on Amazon, and a microSD card that I bought last September for $32, is now out of stock.
> Similar capacity ones go for about 3X that.
> 
> AI in its current form is a drain on resources for society at large ... 
> 
> On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the detailed reply.
>> 
>> I did sign up with OVH VPS, with the same specs as yours, earlier in May.
>> I noticed that the price went up from November, but it was still cheaper than Linode (which is now owned by Akamai), and has more memory, CPU and storage.
>> What I am paying is $9.74 per month, on a 6 month term.
>> 
>> On a similar note, I was affected by the price of storage going up because of AI hoarding. 
>> New NVMe prices have doubled or tripled.
>> 
>> Because I always use previous generation technology, there is no point in getting new (e.g. Gen 4 x 4, while the machine only supports Gen 3 x 4).
>> I bought a used 1TB NVMe SSD, and it worked well.
>> When I needed another for a separate computer, I was scammed with one that didn't work, and verbal agreement to return it was not honoured.
> 
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