Limited used as a "cheaper" instead of pricier service is counterintuitive to me.

"All dedicated servers and cloud plans at all locations are affected by this adjustment. However, web hosting products, managed servers, servers from the Server Auction, IPs, storage products, Load Balancers, Volumes, Snapshots, and Object Storage are not affected."

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment...

I suppose the bigger question to ask, is does it have to do anything with AI forcing hardware prices to go up for everyone, or is this related to the 'green energy' transformation in Germany.

But still. Probably one of the cheapest and most reliable cloud providers (Hetzner Cloud)?

Dear ...

This mail is to inform you about an unfortunate, but necessary price change that we must make.

There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.

The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price adjustment will affect both your existing products and new orders.

...

Looks like they had to buy _a lot_ of new servers and it was very expensive.

No info on how much prices will go up: "We will provide further details on the new prices on our website during the rollout."