ugh.
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@WXQ4987 @simonzerafa I'm not sure yet. I need to figure out the overall change in costs given the number of servers I have, and figure out what I can replace with something smaller, then figure out what the funding gap (if any) will be. I'll do that this evening after work.
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ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens
@jerry That is really terrible. I guess the "all important" data centers are busy consuming everything.
Well, perhaps they'll be able to use all that compute to sell ads to me in a more precise way. That seems important.
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I was thinking more about additional funding, over and above the regular contributions we make.
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ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens
@jerry Is there any public info about this ?
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@jerry Is there any public info about this ?
@eingfoan They have a detailed page with the pricing changes here: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
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@jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.
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@briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc
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@briankrebs @renchap I can objectively say that AI scrapers are a massive problem for me and a drain on resources. Everyone and their dog is trying to scrape the internet continuously with badly designed/vibe coded crawlers that don’t seem to keep track of what they’ve already crawled, let alone the context of what they are attempting to crawl or honoring robots.txt etc
@jerry Maybe you already know this, but I heard Iocaine is pretty good blocking scrapers.
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
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@jerry I foresee a 25% to 50% price increase in the next 2 years for everything requiring hardware, including servers, cloud but also laptops and phones. This will have a *huge* impact.
@renchap Interesting trivia from the refurbished server market: more and more offerings are now bare-bone (meaning without RAM, SSD/NVME) at the same price. They are now removing those parts to sell separately. Capitalism at work. @jerry @glynmoody
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ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens
@jerry Good luck.
I just replaced my old desktop with a new unit. Little mini HP PC. Bought w/ minimal RAM/disk, then bought new RAM separately. The RAM cost 1/2 the price of PC. About $230 for 2 @ 16 GB DDR4 SODIMMs.
Thanks, "AI."
I'm also trying my best to self-host what I can, because 99.9% of what I want to run is just for me/my wife, and I can absolutely get away with it on my limited hardware.
This is truly the worst timeline.
