Either go the serverless way or buy own hardware & use colocation.

this thing of renting compute - prices will continue to increase till maybe demand goes down, or supply for components catches up.

For sure. At some point the math starts favoring bare metal over rented compute.

Especially if VPS prices keep rising faster than the underlying infrastructure.

Nine days apart! Maybe weird timing but pretty insane.

Jun 6: $60.09/month ---> Jun 15: $153.59/month -Same provider/region/plan.

In that span we reran the benchmarks and found the infrastructure behavior was nearly identical despite the 156% price increase.

was inevitable, but their prices are still the best on the market imo

Yer not wrong. Hetz bang/buck pretty nice for the most part. We'll see how/if that changes going forward with additional clusters we'll be doing.

Not at all, go on any low end forum and you'll have a ton of offers way cheaper, in term of reliability long-term+price point, sure, but there is a ton of VPS that are $5-10 a year for 2GB RAM out there (then of course, those providers are always a gamble in term of durability).

True story. Lot of cheaper providers vs. the biggies (and mediums) and we're slowly documenting all this 'behavior'.