The French cloud and web hosting provider OVH feels compelled to pass on rising energy costs to customers from December.
The French cloud provider OVH will increase the prices of its products from December 2022. The company announced this in a blog post. Inflation and rising energy costs are to blame. The price increases affect both new and existing customers. Existing services in the areas of bare metal servers, hosted private clouds, public clouds and web hosting should therefore be around ten percent more expensive from December 1st.
The OVH blog post is silent on the changes in prices for the new customers also mentioned in the announcement. A response from the provider to a request from iX is still pending. The company would like to provide details on the increases for the individual existing services in the coming weeks.
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Energy contracts expire at the end of 2022
Actually, the economic developments of the past few months, with inflation rates of around 9 percent and an increase in energy costs of 40 percent, would have forced the provider to raise prices earlier. Because of the “long-term management” of energy costs with contracts concluded in 2021, the effects have so far been cushioned. These contracts would expire at the end of the year. The increased energy costs must therefore be passed on to customers, according to OVHcloud in the blog post.
The German provider and OVHcloud competitor Hetzner recently announced that it would have to raise the fees for its own services. Hetzner also cites the increased energy costs as a reason. The German company will increase prices from September.
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