---
title: "Why I Paid 24 Months Upfront for My Servers"
excerpt: "OVH and Hetzner are raising their VPS prices by +40% starting April 1, 2026. 
A hefty blow, with no guarantee it'll be the last.
What this means for your SaaS infra costs and how to anticipate and adjust."
author: "Cédric TOURNIER"
author_url: "https://mysaas.blog/en/@Amorem"
published_at: 2026-03-23
locale: en
tags: #vps #hosting #ovh #cloud
source: "https://mysaas.blog/en/@Amorem/why-i-paid-24-months-upfront-for-my-servers"
site: https://mysaas.blog
---

# Why I Paid 24 Months Upfront for My Servers

## Cash is king

Just like in the stock market, having immediately available liquidity will always help you seize opportunities as they arise.

I paid upfront for 24 additional months to lock in (at least in the medium term) the price of my OVH VPS infrastructure.

![OVH invoice from March 2026](https://assets.mysaas.blog/posts/2026-03-23/d12aa904-c859-42e0-908f-303f98d37115.png)With the commitment already in place, I have visibility through September 2028. That seems far away. By then, Anthropic will have come full circle and launched its own fully Claude-powered hosting platform, supporting all protocols/services and becoming the de facto standard (you read it here first).

![Renewal date](https://assets.mysaas.blog/posts/2026-03-23/b8e765fe-ac75-4f44-8d07-dde5d87d8118.png)

## The end of cheap cloud

The question is how we ended up speculating on cloud service prices that, until now, felt like a fixed cost.

Because of AI, of course — all production lines have been redirected toward manufacturing HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), which is required by AI GPUs.

![Trends over the last 36 months](https://assets.mysaas.blog/posts/2026-03-23/79c4164e-15a4-4af8-84c9-f5fc6abe5a90.png)While 2023 and 2024 had been years of deflation (overproduction and the DDR4 market flooded by Chinese manufacturer CXMT), the [Dirty DRAM Deal](https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal) of October 1, 2025 would be the triggering event: Sam Altman seized control of 40% of global DRAM production by signing simultaneously with Samsung and SK Hynix (without either manufacturer knowing about the contract signed with the other — you have to admire Altman's genius here).

![Altman DRAM deal](https://assets.mysaas.blog/posts/2026-03-23/1c3de0c1-b076-46ef-9927-db97c2963d99.jpg)

## +40%: welcome to the new normal

This is how we arrived, at the end of February 2026, at a [LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/octave-klaba-3a0b3632_comme-vous-le-savez-sur-le-plan-mondial-activity-7430652734044884992-BWLJ) from the OVH boss preparing people for the bad pricing news to come: 'We think that by the end of 2026, RAM should be more expensive by +250% to +300% compared to September 2025'.

![Post Octave Klaba](https://assets.mysaas.blog/posts/2026-03-23/d6626a43-474f-4854-b485-a61e221f32dc.png)OVH and Hetzner are broadly aligning on pricing (around +40% for VPS) and timing (start of Q2, so from April 1, 2026).

![an_infographic_in_french_shows_price_increases_of_ivh](https://assets.mysaas.blog/posts/assets/2026-04-13/880f26cb-ecff-49af-b623-b8b727a7bd46.jpg)he pressure will spread across the entire market, at varying speeds and magnitudes (AWS +15% on GPUs in early 2026).

## The gap that kills margins

If your infra costs go up 40% but your customer pricing doesn't move, you're subsidizing your users out of your own margin.
Probably a good time to:

- renew your subscriptions before the price increase takes effect
- audit your underutilized VPS instances
- revisit your pricing (especially entry-level plans)
- consider self-hosting for certain services

## Sources

- [Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal](https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal)
- [Post LinkedIn Octave Klaba](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/octave-klaba-3a0b3632_comme-vous-le-savez-sur-le-plan-mondial-activity-7430652734044884992-BWLJ)
- [OVH new pricing](https://blog.ovhcloud.com/pricing-evolution-of-public-cloud-bare-metal-and-vps-at-ovhcloud/)
- [Hetzner Price Adjustment](https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/)