Like, energy prices over the past year have gone up from €20 per MWh to €120 per MWh, so I sort of get it, but still.
Who would have thought the cost of the hardware would be irrelevant compared to the cost of the energy (or hell, the IPv4 address space)
Makes me wonder how OVH / French alternatives will fare. My guess is much better, since they have a more stable energy infrastructure, from what I can tell. Peter Zeihan has some good analysis on that.
The auctions after the price increase might be interesting.
i hope so. since auction servers don't have a setup fee i could actually save money and get a better machine if i switch now.
as it is, i am saving money and i got a lot more diskspace. the cpu is probably better too because the one being replaced is quite old.