The monthly fee I can understand (but also feel there is a bit of mark-up on it to nudge customers towards IPv6).
I guess since it's their service, they have an absolute right to charge what they like (and let the competition decide) but the set up fees are just not going market rates.
Point I'm trying to make is - charging € 435.20 per month for a /24 is expensive but sort of ok ... but the € 4864.00 set-up fee?
Seriously? It costs € 152.00 for a /29 subnet but it costs 32x MORE to set up a /24 subnet? Is it really 32 times more work to set up?
Hetzner is a host living at a price and popularity point where they always have to consider massive scale abuse.
I'd imagine this is a major incentive for long-term ownership of their freshly acquired IP space instead of churning them through customers to end up on every blacklist for every conceivable type of service.
The monthly fee I can understand (but also feel there is a bit of mark-up on it to nudge customers towards IPv6).
I guess since it's their service, they have an absolute right to charge what they like (and let the competition decide) but the set up fees are just not going market rates.
Point I'm trying to make is - charging € 435.20 per month for a /24 is expensive but sort of ok ... but the € 4864.00 set-up fee?
Seriously? It costs € 152.00 for a /29 subnet but it costs 32x MORE to set up a /24 subnet? Is it really 32 times more work to set up?