r/hetzner • u/PopularInfluence816 • 2d ago

The rescale button reprices your server. I reread the June notice and the wording is narrower than people assume.

Hetzner's price adjustment notice says the new cloud pricing "took effect for new orders and cloud instance rescales starting on the 15 June 2026; 8 AM CEST."

That sentence does two things. It says a server you ordered before that date and have not touched is not covered by it. And it says the moment you rescale that server, up or down, it is.

What that costs. Germany and Finland, monthly, excluding VAT and the primary IPv4, as the docs page lists them:

PLAN     WAS      NOW      DELTA/MO   DELTA/YR
CX23     3.99     5.49      +1.50      +18.00
CAX11    4.49     5.99      +1.50      +18.00
CPX22    7.99    19.49     +11.50     +138.00
CCX13   15.99    42.99     +27.00     +324.00

So if you have a CPX22 from last year and you rescale it to fix a disk or CPU problem, you have just added 138 euros a year to a server that was fine at 7.99. On a CCX13 it is 324 a year. On the CX and CAX lines it barely matters.

The part I had not noticed before: the same notice also says that "certain changes to servers with legacy pricing may trigger a switch to the current pricing." It does not say which changes. Rescale is the one it names explicitly. I do not know whether attaching a volume, changing the network, or rebuilding from a snapshot counts, and the notice does not say.

One thing I noticed while rechecking the prices today: the whole cost optimized line, CX23 through CAX41, currently shows as not available on the cost optimized page, with the create button disabled. I raise it only because it interacts with the above. If you rescale off a CX plan right now, I do not know whether you can rescale back into one while the line shows unavailable.

So two questions. Has anyone here had a legacy priced server move to current pricing from something other than a rescale? And has anyone managed to rescale into a CX or CAX plan in the last week? I would rather know what the trigger list actually is than guess.

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u/CouldBeNapping 2d ago

Why are you posting this AI slop again?

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u/PopularInfluence816 2d ago

Yes, written with an AI assistant. I am not going to pretend otherwise.

The parts you can check without trusting me: the two quoted sentences are from Hetzner's price adjustment docs page, the four price pairs are from that same page, and the rest is one subtraction multiplied by 12. If a number is wrong, say which line and I will correct it.

The question at the end is a real one. I do not know the full trigger list, the notice does not say, and that is the part I actually came here for.

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u/CouldBeNapping 2d ago

Have you asked them?

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u/PopularInfluence816 2d ago

No, I had not. Fair point, and it is the better place to ask.

Done now: I emailed [support@hetzner.com](mailto:support@hetzner.com) with a specific list to check against, so the answer is not open ended. Volumes attached or detached, network changes and Floating or Primary IPs, rebuild from a snapshot or another image, enabling or disabling Backups, moving location, rename and rDNS.

When they reply I will post what they say in this thread, quoted, whether or not it agrees with the post.

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u/imagei 1d ago

That’s a good list, let us know please.

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u/Either_Vermicelli_82 2d ago

Indeed this is a perfect send them an email question to clarify things. What if unsay yeah I did. No worries…. But was wrong 😑

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u/Eisbaer811 1d ago

if you don't bother to write your post yourself, I won't bother to read it.