[aioprisan]

This pricing is highway robbery, how is the incremental setup of an IP in a /29 (only 6 usable addresses out of 2^3=8) when setting up 8 (at $19/IP) total $152? I can see how the monthly rate would change, but upfront setup that high? I guess I won't be using Hetzner going forward..

[oarsinsync]

> I can see how the monthly rate would change, but upfront setup that high?

Presumably this is to make it untenable for spammers to churn through multiple blocks of /24s at little to no cost.

Also, a /24 is going for around $10k to buy or sell on the IPv4 market now, or approx 50% of their setup fee, making it much more economical to buy your own space, which is probably what they'd rather you did, since giving you 256 IPs means thats 256 more servers that they cant sell.

EDIT: and before the response of "but I only want a /29", if there's no incremental setup cost to get a larger block, that approach will get abused by nefarious users. This is why we can't have nice things.

EDIT2: ..and a /29 still means 8 more servers that can't be sold. There's opportunity costs involved in leasing IP space that could be better used elsewhere. As the cost of acquisition of IPv4 space goes up, so does the cost to the end user.

[sascha_sl]

>Presumably this is to make it untenable for spammers to churn through multiple blocks of /24s at little to no cost.

This is exactly what it does. Hetzner Cloud will also, to the dismay of my ssh known hosts, keep assigning you the same IPv4 addresses until it becomes the LRU in their pool for a new customer so you can't do this.

[komuher]

Did u even read the reasoning? IPv4 prices are rising for last 5 years (or even more) price increase is nothing new (my ISP is taking 7 euro per month for IPv4, few years ago it was 2 euro)

[AndrewDucker]

They want to encourage people to buy individual addresses if that works for them. Because that way they can offer them individual bits and pieces rather than having to find contiguous chunks.

[asah]

or... just use Hetzner for expensive servers, where the IPv4 cost is de minimus.