Tell HN: You now have to pay for your IPv4 address at OVHCloud

OVHcloud is changing how its Public Cloud Generation 3 instances are priced from October 1, 2026. Compute rates remain unchanged, but local disk and public IPv4 addresses, previously bundled with B3, C3 and R3 instances, become separate charges. IPv4 costs €0.0027 per hour, about €1.97 monthly; local storage costs €0.0001458 per GB per hour, roughly €0.11 per GB monthly. Existing older-generation instances keep their bundled local storage. Customers will be able to choose disk capacity separately, including no local disk, while Flex instances retain a fixed 50 GB disk. Block, object and file storage prices are unchanged.

The resulting monthly increase depends on instance size and storage: the same disk and IP charges weigh more heavily on smaller servers. Listed standard-instance increases range from 1.4% to 21.9%; for example, a C3-8 rises from €67 to €79, while a B3-64 rises from €299 to €343. A sample setup of three public-facing C3-8 servers and two B3-16 servers goes from €351 to €408.30. Keeping private instances off the public internet can avoid their IPv4 fees and reduce exposure. Savings Plans are also simplified: from September 1, only 12-month and 36-month terms remain, discounting compute by 15% and 30%; storage and IP charges receive no discount. Existing commitments retain their rates until expiry, but will incur the new separate charges from October.