>Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources.
So... raising the prices for everybody instead?
So... raising the prices for everybody instead?
Sucks to pay a dollar per terabyte extra if you're downloading a petabyte per month through your hetzner VPN, but this sure beats raising everyone's prices because two or three companies decided to use Hetzner to build a CDN.
This is why you can't offer unlimited anything, and why we can't have nice things.
It sure reads to me like they raised the base instance price across the board. The biggest increases will be for those using over the new included bandwidth (min 1tb) but they are going up for everyone.
No they're not? AFAICT if I made a CPX11 using 0.1TB/mo, my price just went from 3.85 to 4.49.
They also use the word "tariff" several times without elaborating, as if the person who wrote the email doesn't know the actual meaning of the word.
Seems like intentional deception to hide a standard "we just want more money" price raise.
In my country, "tariff" is seen in several contexts:
* A tax on imports, much in the news since the recent US election.
* A pub or bar's price list is known as the "bar tariff"
* Energy companies offer a selection of "tariffs" i.e. agreed contract rates for usage-based pricing. e.g. a 3-year-fixed-price tariff, a 100%-green-energy tariff, and so on.
* The portion of a 'life' jail sentence which must be served, before a prisoner can be considered for parole.
So I don't think it's incorrect to call a price list a "tariff", merely unusual.
I am curious if the others are British English? Or Indian? Other?
I'm pretty sure it is in American English. That usage might be ok in British English, but for Americans that terminology is going to be confusing. Before today, I had never heard tariff used for anything other than import taxes. And since this applies to servers in the US, it would make sense not to use terminology that would be confusing to people in that country.
Whereas when talking to consumers they seem to use terms like 'rate' and 'plan'.
The word "tariff" has a few different meanings. I'd say they're using it correctly, just not with the same meaning that the word is commonly being used in the news right now.
So it's not unexpected to use the uncommon in English meaning of the word to describe these changes.
When running small companies they still tend to be motivated by other things, such as proving a point, achieving a technical goal or having some cultural influence etc.
It's only when the company grows in size that it becomes this soulless greedy sociopath we are all too accustomed to.
Hetzner grew a lot those last 5 years or so.
Most small and medium size businesses also fit this description. And I don't consider a price hike to be sociopathic or soulless. Greedy, sure. But businesses are always profit focused first and foremost.
I understand that American english has diverged somewhat, but I would not have expected this word to give so much anguish. I wasn’t even personally aware that americans used it for a particular terminology.
in the meanwhile, us brits will continue using a literal swear word as our most popular version control system and not complain about it. :)