No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites

Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1.

The increases will apply to both existing customers and new orders at its datacenters in Germany, Finland, the US and Singapore. Hetzner provides low-cost Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for developers and many corporate customers.

In a statement, Hetzner said: "There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT sector 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," it added. "We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations."

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