OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs
He has also seen a 7x price increase for NVMe drives, hard disk prices rise 3.5x, and the cost of CPUs, motherboards, and network cards rise by 15 to 20 percent. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The biggest rise will come to those who rent 2026-edition gaming servers, whose bills will jump by 87 percent. The cost of other recent servers will increase by 40 to 59 percent.
- ▪He has also seen a 7x price increase for NVMe drives, hard disk prices rise 3.5x, and the cost of CPUs, motherboards, and network cards rise by 15 to 20 percent.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The biggest rise will come to those who rent 2026-edition gaming servers, whose bills will jump by 87 percent.
- ▪The cost of other recent servers will increase by 40 to 59 percent.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); off-prem OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor APAC Editor Published tue 11 Aug 2026 // 06:52 UTC Octave Klaba, the CEO of France-based cloud operator OVH has warned that it will soon hike the price of server rental by up to 87 percent.Klaba said the price OVH pays for memory rose 6x in the…
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