£49 to £60 is ~22%. Sounds like a lot in percentage terms but given one of the biggest costs of server hosting is power I’m not surprised. And the increase is still less than £1 per month.
Excluding VAT on both old and new costs it’s moving from £45 to £60 ~33% Unfortunately it’s yet another cost of running a business that’s well over any inflationary increase.
I’m all for development investment but IMHO every increase I’m experiencing makes me feel like its all a great excuse to ramp up pricing. The knock on effect is huge.
We never make any decisions like this lightly, but unfortunately, as the guide linked above explained, all our costs have increased, just like everyone else’s.
This is the first time we’ve increased the prices since 2016.