[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.