VPS price increases in 2026 came from Hetzner (30% to 37% in April, then up to 175% on new orders in June), OVHcloud (43% to 49% on its VPS range), netcup (18.51% on running contracts, 24.33% on new ones), Scaleway, Leaseweb, IONOS and Fourplex. The single main cause is memory: server RAM and NVMe drives cost several times what they did in 2025, because chip makers moved production towards AI servers.
This page tracks every hike we could trace to the provider's own announcement, with old and new prices, the date, and whether it reaches servers you already pay for. If you are pricing a new server instead, RS Computers sells the same six KVM plans in three cities, and the Amsterdam ones are on our VPS Netherlands page.
Last checked: 10 November 2026. We update the table when a provider publishes a new notice.
Key facts:
- Hetzner raised prices twice. The 1 April 2026 round applied to "both new orders and existing products" (Hetzner statement, 23 February 2026); the 15 June round applies to new orders and rescales only (Hetzner press release, 27 May 2026).
- OVHcloud's VPS-1 went from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and an additional IPv4 from €1.50 to €2.00, both excluding VAT (OVHcloud blog, 5 March 2026).
- netcup announced +18.51% for existing contracts and +24.33% for new ones on 18 March 2026 (netcup forum), then a second round for new orders only on 22 September 2026 (netcup price adjustment page).
- TrendForce forecast server DRAM contract prices up 13% to 18% quarter on quarter in the third quarter of 2026 (TrendForce, 9 July 2026), and conventional DRAM up 10% to 15% plus NAND Flash up 15% to 20% in the fourth quarter (TrendForce, 30 September 2026).
- Most 2026 increases hit new orders first. Only the Hetzner April round, the netcup May round and Fourplex's November change raised servers that were already running.
Which VPS providers raised prices in 2026: the tracker
One row per price move, in date order. "New orders" means anything you buy from that date, including a replacement for a server you cancel. "Existing" means a server you were already paying for.
| Provider and product | Old to new, or percentage | Effective | Applies to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Cloud, all lines | +30% to +37% in Germany and Finland; CX23 €2.99 to €3.99 | 1 April 2026 | New orders and existing servers | Hetzner statement; figures via webhosting.today. Our plan-by-plan guide |
| OVHcloud VPS 2026 range (VPS-1 to VPS-6) | +43% to +49%; VPS-1 €4.49 to €6.49 | 1 April 2026 | New orders; existing subscriptions at the end of their current term | OVHcloud blog |
| OVHcloud additional IPv4 | €1.50 to €2.00 a month (+33%) | 1 April 2026 | Same rule as the VPS range | OVHcloud blog |
| netcup, all servers | +18.51% existing contracts, +24.33% new contracts | 1 May 2026 at the earliest | New and existing; existing customers could terminate instead | netcup forum. Our netcup and Leaseweb guide |
| Scaleway, listed products | Most Instances about +2% to +3% (DEV1-S €0.0088 to €0.00898 an hour); Flexible IPv4 €0.004 to €0.005 an hour (+25%); STARDUST1-S €0.00015 to €0.0006 an hour | 1 June 2026 | Hourly list prices; the post does not separate new and existing customers | Scaleway blog, 27 April 2026 |
| Hetzner Cloud CPX and CCX (and CX, CAX) | CPX +144% to +175%, CCX +113% to +173%, CX and CAX +30% to +38%; CPX22 €7.99 to €19.49 | 15 June 2026, 8 AM CEST | New orders and rescales; running servers keep their price | Hetzner press release; price table, archived 22 October 2026. Our stay-or-move comparison |
| Leaseweb VPS, selected packs | 20% on average across regions; Amsterdam VPS 1 €3.99 to €4.99 | 1 August 2026 | Contracts signed from that date; existing ones renew at the current price | Leaseweb blog, 28 July 2026 |
| OVHcloud dedicated servers (Advance, Game, Scale, High Grade) | +16% to +100% by range; ADVANCE-1 Gen 2024 €89.99 to €114.99 | 11 August 2026 (new orders), 1 October 2026 (renewals) | New orders, then running servers at their renewal date | OVHcloud blog, 17 August 2026 |
| netcup G12.5 generation | VPS Lite up to +20%, x86 VPS up to +40%, root servers +70% to +110%, smaller disks | 22 September 2026 | New orders only; renewals unchanged | netcup forum; netcup notice |
| Fourplex Ryzen VPS (New York) | +33% on most plans; VPS S $3.50 to $5.00 | 1 October 2026 (new), 1 November 2026 (existing) | New and existing | Fourplex, 1 October 2026 |
| IONOS, products named in each customer's letter | Not published; the new price is in a PDF sent by email | The date stated in the letter | Existing contracts; affected products can be cancelled | IONOS help centre |
| cPanel licence (not a server, but on many VPS bills) | +8.3% to +10%; Solo $29.99 to $32.99 | 16 December 2026 | New orders and existing licences | cPanel pricing FAQ. Our cPanel guide |
Prices are monthly unless marked hourly, and exclude VAT. Percentages are the provider's own where it published them; for OVHcloud and Scaleway we calculated them from the published old and new prices. Hetzner's June price table was no longer on its documentation site when we checked on 10 November 2026, so the link goes to an archived copy.
Not in the table, and why
A provider is listed only when its own announcement or help page confirms the change. On 10 November 2026 we found no announcement of a general 2026 price increase from DigitalOcean, Vultr or Akamai (Linode); the trade site webhosting.today reported the same in its overview of 12 May 2026. That is not proof that every plan costs what it did in January, so check your invoice. For Contabo and Hostinger we found only third-party price trackers and reviews, no notice from the provider, so they are not listed either way.
OVHcloud VPS price increase 2026: old and new price per model
OVHcloud's founder, Octave Klaba, published the new price list on 5 March 2026. It covers the "VPS 2026" family, VPS-1 to VPS-6, plus the Local Zone model VPSLZ-1.
| OVHcloud model | Old monthly price | New monthly price | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPS-1 | €4.49 | €6.49 | +44.5% |
| VPS-2 | €6.99 | €9.99 | +42.9% |
| VPS-3 | €13.99 | €19.99 | +42.9% |
| VPS-4 | €24.99 | €36.99 | +48.0% |
| VPS-5 | €36.99 | €54.99 | +48.7% |
| VPS-6 | €48.99 | €72.99 | +49.0% |
| VPSLZ-1 (Local Zone) | €5.49 | €7.49 | +36.4% |
| Additional IPv4 | €1.50 | €2.00 | +33.3% |
Public prices on a monthly commitment, excluding VAT, from the OVHcloud blog post of 5 March 2026; the change column is our arithmetic. The same post lists 6-month and 12-month prepaid prices, which rose by the same proportions: VPS-1 on 12 months went from €45.72 to €66.19.
Three details decide what you pay:
- The headline numbers in the post are averages for other products: 9% to 11% for cloud hardware deployed from 2026 to 2028 and 2% to 6% for hardware deployed before 2025. The VPS table in the same post shows far larger steps.
- Existing subscriptions were not repriced mid-term. The post says "the new prices will only apply at the end of the current contractual period", and services could be renewed at the old rate for up to 2 years before 1 April. If you prepaid in March, your old price can run into 2028.
- The Kimsufi and So you Start server ranges were left out of the April round, and again out of the August round for dedicated servers.
The French outlet Next reported the customer emails on 23 February 2026, quoting €5.39 to €7.79 for VPS-1, which matches the list prices above plus 20% French VAT.
The second OVHcloud round, published on 17 August 2026, does not mention VPS. It raised dedicated servers: memory and storage options for orders from 1 July, whole configurations from 11 August, and servers already running from their renewal date on or after 1 October. At renewal, installed memory on a Gen 2026 server costs 40% more and storage 15% more.
Why are VPS prices going up?
Memory first, then drives, then IP addresses. Every provider in the table names the same causes.
DRAM and NAND contract prices
DRAM is the chip inside server RAM, and NAND Flash is the chip inside NVMe drives. A contract price is what large buyers pay the manufacturer each quarter. TrendForce, the market research firm most hosts quote, published these forecasts:
- Third quarter of 2026: server DRAM contract prices up 13% to 18% quarter on quarter, with further quarterly rises expected from the second half of 2026 through the second half of 2027, at a slower pace (9 July 2026).
- Fourth quarter of 2026: conventional DRAM up 10% to 15% quarter on quarter and overall NAND Flash contract prices up 15% to 20%, with server DRAM "expected to remain undersupplied" (30 September 2026).
Those are increases on top of earlier increases. OVHcloud's March post projected RAM prices 250% to 300% above September 2025 by the end of 2026, and netcup wrote in its September forum post that it pays about five times as much for server memory as a year earlier.
AI server demand
TrendForce's September release puts the cause in its title: AI server demand keeps contract prices rising while consumer demand stays weak. OVHcloud describes the mechanism: the three large memory makers redirected much of their production towards memory for GPUs, without ordinary demand for RAM and storage falling.
IPv4 addresses and running costs
Scaleway names a "global IP shortage" and raised its Flexible IPv4 by 25%. Leaseweb lists a shortage of IP address resources next to chips and inflation. OVHcloud raised an additional IPv4 by a third. Market prices for addresses are in our IPv4 price guide. Energy appears less often in the 2026 notices: Hetzner speaks of the cost "to operate our infrastructure", and Fourplex names power and data centre costs.
The practical point: these costs reach every host that buys new hardware, including us. Switching provider can lower your bill, but it does not take you out of the memory market.
What you can do when your VPS provider raises prices
- Find out whether the notice covers your server at all. Hetzner's June round, netcup's September round and Leaseweb's August change leave running servers alone. Cancelling one of those to "escape the increase" usually means buying back in at the new price.
- Read the notice period and the termination clause in your contract. netcup's terms (section 4(7)) give six weeks' notice of a price change to a running contract and let you terminate on the day the new price applies; if you do nothing for four weeks, the new price counts as accepted. IONOS says affected products can be cancelled from the account.
- Check what triggers the new price on an old server. At Hetzner a rescale does, up or down. At OVHcloud the end of your prepaid term does.
- Right-size before you compare. Memory is the expensive part, so measure what the server uses at its busiest hour and price that, not the plan you bought two years ago. The read-only commands are in our netcup and Leaseweb guide.
- Compare like with like: shared or dedicated vCPU, disk size, included IPv4, traffic, and the price over the term you will really keep. A smaller disk at the same price is an increase.
- Ask the new provider in writing whether a running server's price can change and with how much notice.
A short, honest migration checklist
Moving a server is mostly preparation. Budget an evening for a simple site and a weekend for anything with several databases.
- Take a full backup and restore it somewhere once, so you know it works. Our VPS backup and restore guide covers both halves.
- Lower the DNS time to live to 300 seconds a day ahead.
- Copy files and databases while the old server is live, then test the new server under your real hostname.
- Freeze writes, run a final sync, switch DNS, and leave a proxy on the old server for late visitors.
- Keep the old server until its access log is quiet, and only then cancel, inside the notice period.
Every step, with commands and timings from our lab (the final switch froze writes for 24 seconds), is in the server migration guide; it works from any Linux host to any other. Things that often go wrong: mail on port 25, which many hosts block by default, reverse DNS, licences tied to an IP address, and firewall rules that lived in the old provider's panel instead of on the server.
Where RS Computers stands
RS Computers LLC is a hosting company founded in 2018 in Prishtina, Kosovo, running KVM servers on its own network, AS213900, in Amsterdam, Dublin and Prishtina. We sell the same six plans at the same euro prices in all three cities: three VPS plans with shared vCPUs (Nano, Micro, Mini) and three VDS plans with dedicated vCPUs (Small, Medium, Large). Current prices are on the plans page; we do not repeat them here, because a number in an article goes stale.
We will not promise that our prices never change. We buy the same RAM and NVMe drives as everyone in the table, and anyone who guarantees a fixed price through 2027 is guessing. What we can state is what each server includes today: a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address, 1 to 100 TB of traffic a month depending on the plan with no overage fees, a free weekly backup with the last two copies kept, a 99% monthly uptime SLA and a 7-day refund for new customers. Payment is by bank transfer or cryptocurrency, as described on our crypto VPS page; we do not take cards or PayPal.
We are not the right choice for everyone leaving a bigger provider. Our largest plan has 32 GB of RAM, we have no hourly billing, and we have no US or Asian location.
Frequently asked questions
Which VPS providers raised prices in 2026?
Hetzner (1 April and 15 June), OVHcloud (1 April for VPS, August to October for dedicated servers), netcup (1 May and 22 September), Scaleway (1 June), Leaseweb (1 August), Fourplex (1 October and 1 November) and IONOS (by individual letter) all published price increases in 2026. cPanel licences follow on 16 December 2026.
How much did OVHcloud VPS prices go up?
Between 43% and 49% on a monthly commitment. OVHcloud's price list of 5 March 2026 shows VPS-1 going from €4.49 to €6.49, VPS-3 from €13.99 to €19.99 and VPS-6 from €48.99 to €72.99 a month, excluding VAT. An additional IPv4 went from €1.50 to €2.00.
Do VPS price increases apply to existing customers?
It depends on the round. Hetzner's April increase, netcup's May increase and Fourplex's November increase raised running servers. Hetzner's June round, netcup's September round and Leaseweb's August change apply to new orders only. OVHcloud applies new prices when your current term ends.
Why are VPS prices going up?
Mainly because server memory and NVMe drives cost far more than in 2025. Chip makers shifted production towards memory for AI servers, and TrendForce forecast server DRAM contract prices up 13% to 18% in the third quarter of 2026 alone. Scarce IPv4 addresses add a smaller amount.
Can I cancel my contract because of a price increase?
Often yes, but read your own terms. netcup's terms give six weeks' notice and a right to terminate on the day the new price applies. IONOS states that products affected by its adjustment can be cancelled. An increase that only covers new orders gives a running contract no special right to leave.
Which host has not raised VPS prices in 2026?
We found no announcement of a general 2026 increase from DigitalOcean, Vultr or Akamai (Linode) as of 10 November 2026, but no provider is insulated from memory costs and none has promised a freeze. Check the date on any "no increase" claim, including this one.
Will VPS prices come down again?
Not soon, on the published forecasts. TrendForce expects server DRAM contract prices to keep rising each quarter through the second half of 2027, more slowly than in 2026. OVHcloud wrote in March 2026 that it does not expect a return to earlier price levels before 2028.
Check the date on your contract, then pick a size
Start with the "applies to" column: if your server is not being repriced, note your term end and decide before then. If it is, or you need a new server anyway, measure what you use and buy that. At RS Computers, VPS Nano (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe) or VPS Micro (2 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB) fits a small site or a VPN; VPS Mini (4 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB) fits a busier site or a Windows desktop; and anything that replaces a dedicated-core plan such as a Hetzner CCX or a netcup root server belongs on VDS Small (4 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB, 240 GB), Medium or Large. The Amsterdam plans are on the VPS Netherlands page and all cities on the plans page. Send your current specs on Telegram and we will say which plan fits, or that staying put is cheaper.