are those real auctions, because i see a price and the option to order it with that price.
for example currently auction has a 64gb ram 500gb ssd and a old quad core xeon with a cpu score of 8000 for 44 eur vs a new amd ryzen with a score of 20000 for 40 eur + 46 eur setup.
the old server does not make sense here.
Back in the day when I rented a server from their auction, the prices indeed did drop by 1€ every 24h or 72h or whatever. But not below a minimum they had set per computer type, perhaps that is still how it works. And yeah, it doesn't make sense to get an old Xeon for a higher monthly fee than a recent Ryzen, only some of the auctions make sense. (But then they might make a lot of sense: I got 6T of disk, 16G RAM and 8 cores for 27€/m.)
In the case of the Xeon, i think they also price in their electricity costs - supposedly, the Xeon uses more power than the Ryzen?
Due to a recent price hike with electricity, their CEO once again acknowledged on their forums that they do not sell (rent, rather) the servers in the Serverbörse at a loss.
From what I understood, the price goes down occasionally (not sure how often). If you're happy with the price, then go for it. Otherwise wait for it go lower and risk someone stealing the deal.
That's why the price varies widely. You need to wait for the price to go down. It's kinda like a reverse auction I guess?
Yeah and not just by a bit. My existing server went from 24 to 33€. I mean it's still cheap I guess, a 4th gen i7 with 16gb ram and 2tb HDD, but still, that's like a 50% increase for a machine that's mostly idle and occasional peak load.
