<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>It's only gotten worse if you've checked their new VPS 2027 line. They basically bumped the tiers went up one tier in price (and added a smaller vps for tier 1) and erased the upper 2 tiers of the 2026 line due to the shortages. I've looked at their dedicated servers (at least the T1/T2) and what used to go for $15-20 CAD/mo has gone to $30 CAD/mo minimum.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't hate or even really dislike LLMs as a whole but the overbuilding that everyone, the US especially, is doing is really trying to make me change that opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 11 Jun 2026, at 15:33, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:small;">There is now a term for this AI induced memory shortage crisis:</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:small;">RAMaggedon</div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-size:small;"><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-companies-are-freaking-out-about-ramageddon/">https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/tech-companies-are-freaking-out-about-ramageddon/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">I just checked on Amazon, and a microSD card that I bought last September for $32, is now out of stock.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">Similar capacity ones go for about 3X that.</div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;" class="qt-gmail_default">AI in its current form is a drain on resources for society at large ... </div><div><br></div></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote qt-gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 12:33\u202fPM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;">Thanks for the detailed reply.</div><div style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;">I did sign up with OVH VPS, with the same specs as yours, earlier in May.</div><div style="font-size:small;">I noticed that the price went up from November, but it was still cheaper than Linode (which is now owned by Akamai), and has more memory, CPU and storage.</div><div style="font-size:small;">What I am paying is $9.74 per month, on a 6 month term.</div><div style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;">On a similar note, I was affected by the price of storage going up because of AI hoarding. </div><div style="font-size:small;">New NVMe prices have doubled or tripled.</div><div style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;">Because I always use previous generation technology, there is no point in getting new (e.g. Gen 4 x 4, while the machine only supports Gen 3 x 4).</div><div style="font-size:small;">I bought a used 1TB NVMe SSD, and it worked well.</div><div style="font-size:small;">When I needed another for a separate computer, I was scammed with one that didn't work, and verbal agreement to return it was not honoured.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="qt-gmail_signature_prefix">--</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_signature"><div>Khalid M. Baheyeldin</div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list</div><div>To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a></div><div>with the subject "unsubscribe", or email</div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>