Following.
What do you use for price tracking across hosts?
Does anyone track Hetzner pricing? Their cloud console is Angular and changedetection.io chokes on it unless you throw a full browser at every check. Not worth the RAM for me.
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turbo54 said:
Hetzner pricing
They have an API. Not officially documented for price history but the products endpoint lists current skus. I poll it with curl and jq, no browser needed — https://docs.hetzner.com. The problem is they change skus without notice -- a CX21 becomes a CX22, your history breaks.
I used to do this. Stopped. The time I spent maintaining selectors was worth more than the savings I found. Now I just buy annual from whoever has the best renewal price on the first Monday of the quarter and do not look back.
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dot8 said:
Time I spent maintaining selectors
This is the unspoken cost. Every host redesigns their site twice a year. My changedetection.io has twelve "broken" watches right now that I have not fixed. The tool works. My patience does not.
My NAS runs a Pentium III. It does not run Docker. It does not run Playwright. I get price alerts by subscribing to RSS feeds where hosts still offer them, which is maybe three hosts, and reading them in Thunderbird like a civilised person.
SPARCstation 20, still serving HTTP
São Paulo perspective: we pay in USD, earn in BRL, and the exchange rate moves more than most host price drops. I track USD/BRL more carefully than I track RackNerd. A "15% off" coupon is meaningless if the real moved 20% against you that month.
This.
Has anyone tried the new Hetzner price API v2? Supposedly more stable skus. I saw a thread on their discuss board but no details.
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ltd25 said:
Hetzner price API v2
I have not seen this. Link? Their status page mentions nothing, and I checked my API responses this morning -- still the same structure as six months ago.