VPS prices are rising everywhere in 2026: Hetzner, OVHcloud, Hostinger

Your Hetzner servers didn't get more expensive on their own. Hostinger's promo price isn't the price you keep paying. And OVHcloud quietly bumped its VPS line in April. If you rent a VPS anywhere, 2026 has been a year of creeping bills, and the providers are all reacting to the same thing.

This isn't one company getting greedy. It's the floor moving under everyone who rents compute. Here's what changed at the three providers most of my clients actually use, why it's happening, and how to come out of it without overpaying.

I run servers across a few of these for my own projects and for client work, so I went and checked the panels rather than reading off a press release.

The one cause behind all of it: memory got expensive

Start here, because it explains every price change below.

DRAM, the RAM in your server, climbed hard through the year. NAND flash, what your SSD is made of, followed. The driver is AI. Data-centre buildouts are buying memory in volumes that warp the whole supply chain, and smaller buyers get squeezed. OVHcloud has openly said it expects RAM cost to rise 250 to 300 percent by the end of 2026 compared to September 2025. Read that number again. That's not a hosting problem, that's a hardware-market problem landing on your invoice.

So when you see Hetzner, OVHcloud and Hostinger all move in the same few months, it's not coincidence and it's not collusion. They're all buying from the same squeezed supply.

The useful takeaway: don't waste an afternoon hunting for a near-identical provider at the old price. The cheap-memory era paused for everybody at once.

Hetzner: the CCX line took the real hit

Hetzner raised cloud prices on 15 June 2026. The change only applies to new orders and to rescales. If your server is the right size already and you leave it alone, your bill is untouched. That's the part most people miss in a panic.

The shared-vCPU lines (CX, CAX, CPX) went up roughly 30 to 43 percent. Annoying, absorbable. A CAX11, the cheapest Arm box, went from 4.49 to 5.99 euro a month.

The dedicated-vCPU CCX line is where it stings. These jumped two to three times:

(Germany/Finland, excluding VAT and IPv4. US and Singapore run a touch higher.)

There's a trap here I nearly fell into. Moving from a dedicated-vCPU CCX to a cheaper shared CPX crosses server families, so it isn't a rescale, it's a rebuild. You spin up a new server and migrate. And any rescale moves you to the new pricing anyway, so you can't drag the old rate along. Before you touch anything: if the box is fine, leave it and keep the old price. If you genuinely need more, price the new tier first. And ask honestly whether you even need dedicated vCPU, because most normal web apps and databases run fine on shared.

OVHcloud: the April increase you might have missed

OVHcloud moved first, on 1 April 2026. Its VPS and public cloud lines went up, with the entry VPS-1 climbing from about 4.90 to 7.60 euro a month and the VPS-4 from 26.00 to 43.50. Public cloud increases land in the 9 to 11 percent range for newer deployments, with older ones rising less plus a change in IPv4 pricing.

OVHcloud framed it as applying to a limited set of bare metal, the VPS 2026 range, and extra IPv4, with the Eco range (Kimsufi, So You Start) and some older VPS families left out. So if you're on an older OVH plan, check whether yours is even affected before you assume the worst.

Hostinger: the price is the renewal, not the promo

Hostinger plays a different game, and it catches people every time.

Hostinger has raised prices across its VPS plans too, pushed by the same hardware costs plus IPv4 acquisition and datacenter operating costs. But the way you feel it is at renewal, not signup. Hostinger sells deep promo discounts (60 to 70 percent off) on initial 12 to 24 month terms. When the term ends, the rate roughly doubles.

Here's the current global VPS lineup and what it renews at:

To be fair to Hostinger, the VPS renewal jump (roughly doubling) is much milder than its shared hosting, where renewals can climb close to 300 percent. So a Hostinger VPS is still a fair deal, you just have to budget for the renewal number, not the sticker. You can check the live tiers on the Hostinger VPS pricing page.

So who's actually cheapest now?

Even after all this, Hetzner is still the value pick for raw, always-on compute per spec.

Line up a Hostinger KVM 4 at its 28.99 USD renewal (4 vCPU, 16GB) against Hetzner and DigitalOcean and the gap is real. A DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 2 vCPU / 4GB droplet is about 42 USD a month. Hetzner's CCX13, post-increase, is around 51 USD in the US region but gives you 8GB of RAM and far more included traffic. Against AWS or Google Cloud the difference isn't close: Hetzner stays roughly two to three times cheaper for equivalent steady workloads.

The honest caveats. Hostinger's promo rates undercut everyone short term, but you're signing up for the renewal price, so judge it on that. Hetzner is European-rooted with fewer regions and a leaner managed-services and support model that expects you to know what you're doing. If you want a console that holds your hand, that convenience is a real cost the sticker hides. I broke the providers down properly in where should you host your app, and the trade-offs there still hold after this round of increases.

What to do this week

Don't overreact. Do the boring, useful things.

1. List what you're running and where. For Hetzner, flag which boxes are CCX (dedicated vCPU) versus shared, that's your exposure. For Hostinger, note your renewal date and the renewal price, not the promo.
2. For each Hetzner CCX, ask whether the workload truly needs dedicated vCPU. If not, plan a migration to a shared line. Snapshot, test in staging, cut over. Treat it as a real move, because crossing families is one.
3. Leave servers you're happy with alone. On Hetzner, unrescaled servers keep the old price. There's no deadline forcing you to act, so don't invent one.
4. If a renewal is coming up on Hostinger or OVH, that's the moment to compare. A renewal is a natural decision point, a happy mid-term server is not.

If you self-host more than a couple of boxes, this is also a good prompt to tighten the rest of the setup. My self-hosted security checklist and the reverse-proxy guide cover the things people skip until something breaks.

The price floor moved across the whole market. The mistake isn't paying a bit more, it's rescaling in a hurry or renewing on autopilot and paying the new rate on a server you were perfectly happy with.

Frequently asked questions

Why are VPS prices going up in 2026?

Hardware cost, mostly memory and storage. DRAM and NAND flash prices climbed sharply through the year as AI data-centre buildout soaked up global supply. OVHcloud projects RAM cost rising 250 to 300 percent by the end of 2026 versus September 2025. That's why Hetzner, OVHcloud and Hostinger all repriced in the same window.

When did the Hetzner price increase take effect?

15 June 2026 at 8 AM CEST. It applies to new cloud orders and to rescales of existing servers. If you don't rescale, your existing server keeps its old price. Orders placed before that date but delivered after still get the old rate.

Which Hetzner servers went up the most?

The dedicated-vCPU CCX line. CCX13 went from 15.99 to 42.99 euro per month, roughly 2.7 times. The shared lines (CX, CAX, CPX) rose more gently, around 30 to 43 percent.

Does Hostinger VPS get more expensive at renewal?

Yes. Hostinger sells deep promo discounts on 12 to 24 month terms, then the rate roughly doubles when you renew. KVM 1 goes from about 6.49 to 11.99 USD a month, KVM 4 from 12.99 to 28.99. That's milder than Hostinger's shared hosting, which can jump nearly 300 percent at renewal.

Is Hetzner still cheaper than DigitalOcean and Hostinger after the increase?

For raw compute, Hetzner is still the cheapest of the major names per spec, even post-increase. Hostinger's promo rates undercut everyone, but the renewal rate is the number that matters long term. DigitalOcean and the hyperscalers stay roughly two to three times more expensive than Hetzner for equivalent always-on servers.