The recent hike in computer hardware prices, especially the costs for RAM and SSDs have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased by up to 500% since September 2025.

And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year. The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services.

We now have to pay much higher cloud VPS bills to keep our pool running on five relays for optimum performance with better connectivity and availability, and we are not going to compromise on the performance of our pool by reducing relays to cut VPS bills.

So we need your ADA delegation support for our pool to increase the active stake to cross 1 M ADA, so that our pool mint bolcks frequently. We may need the pool operators' one epoch rewards every month to pay for cloud VPS bills, and the remaining epoch rewards for that month get pledged as promised. You can track the pool operators' rewards withdrawal from primestakepool.com website ​→ Pool ​→ Pool Expenses.