[mdrzn]

Server auction didn't change at all, the lowest price server is still around 33€.

[Hasz]

Market for DDR4 is crazy, but not as crazy as DDR5.

Also a symptom of how inelastic hardware demands are. You would expect the purest k8s people to just shove workers on older machines and completely dodge this crisis, but we don't see that at all. Despite being an almost-commodity, many of the hw vendors still have a decent hand.

[KronisLV]

> Note: All "Server Auction" servers have a 3% price increase across the board.

Mine went from 36.30 EUR to 37.39 EUR, according to the e-mail that I got.

I'm actually very thankful that the Server Auction exists and lets some hardware be used like that, instead of becoming e-waste or something.

For what I get, those prices are more than reasonable. I feel a bit bad about the other prices that saw a way bigger of a hike.

[mdrzn]

Mine went from €33 to €33.99, so I definitely cannot complain.

[paxys]

Well it's an auction. They only set the starting price, and it keeps lowering periodically until someone buys.

What they can do is:

- Raise the price of already rented servers (which is happening Apr 1)

- Increase the minimum price beyond which a server is removed from auction and dismantled (I believe it is 30 euros right now)

[Zekio]

Not the 1st of April yet, so makes sense the prices haven't changed yet