Skip to content
Register

My colo bill went up 40% after 5 years

Dedicated Servers by mediaaustin 5 replies 365 views
mediaaustin

Member OP

Deliverability Nerd

#1

This is why email people like me warn about vendor lock-in.

For what it's worth, I've had a quarter rack at Contabo since 2019. €85/month, unmetered 1Gbps, /26 included. Renewal just came: $119/month. "Market adjustments." No notice, just the invoice.

For what it's worth, I run mail infrastructure there. Three MXes, proper SPF/DKIM/DMARC (yes, aligned, before anyone asks). Moving means IP reputation death. Blocklists don't care about your "market adjustments."

Has anyone actually successfully pushed back on colo increases? Or is this just the new normal? I'm weighing self-hosting at home against eating the increase. For what it's worth, my home connection is asymmetric cable, so that's a non-starter for mail.

SPF, DKIM, DMARC — holy trinity ✉️
GuruDeutschlag

Member

#2

Ja this is the Standardbusinesspractice now nein you cannot escape it ja. I had the same Shockrechnung from OVHcloud last Quarter, my Bandwidthcommitment went up 35% for no technical Reason. I called them and the Salesperson said "globalenergycosts" which is a very nice compoundwordforavoidingblame.

Ja you should check your Servicelevelagreement for Priceprotectionclauses nein mine had none ja. Very sad.

hankels

Member

52 VPS and counting

#3

I can't absorb a 40% hit... my margins are thin already...

I threatened to move my two racks from Hetzner to InterServer and they matched my original rate within 48 hours... my customers didn't even notice...

'Sara's Crafts'

seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
SamAlvi

Member

Self-Host Everything

2 #4

Why pay for colo when you can self-host it

Seriously, docker compose on a used mini PC, reverse proxy with traefik, dynamic DNS, you're out maybe $30/month power and your own hardware. I've got 40 services running at home, everything from Plex to a full mail stack (yes, with SPF/DKIM/DMARC, it's not hard). The only reason colo ever made sense was static IPs, and even that's solvable now.

  • The reverse proxy handles everything.
  • Docker compose makes it trivial.

Why pay Contabo €119 when you can self-host for a third of that after year one?

my cloud. my rules. my 3AM alerts.
hankels

Member

52 VPS and counting

#5

Does Contabo's /26 even cover reverse DNS for three MXes?

seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
TO

Member

#6

What mini pc, which model and how much ram

Post a reply

You need an account to reply. Log in or register to join the conversation.

Post reply Preview Save draft