[MathiasPius]

This is actually great. I maintain a library[1] for interacting with the Robot interface using Rust, but testing is heavily gated because of the potential costs it might incur, which is why a lot of the purchasing/cancellation APIs haven't been thoroughly tested.

With this billing, I'll be able to do thorough integration testing without breaking the bank.

And of course with hourly billing, horizontal scaling becomes much more feasible.

[1] https://github.com/MathiasPius/hrobot-rs

[jupp0r]

Have you reached out to Hetzner? Feels like they should waive those bills in exchange for the free dev work you do for them.

[MathiasPius]

I haven't actually. I believe they do offer modest amounts of credit for creating useful libraries, documentation and such targeting their platform, but I never really looked into it.

[Havoc]

Try reaching out to Katie - seen her in various parts of the internet. Think she’s a community manager or something like that. Eg

https://old.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1agom04/are_there_...

[sonicanatidae]

A company, acting reasonably?

Are you new to Earth?

[joeig]

At the moment there is still a one-time order fee for dedicated servers and the docs don’t clarify if it will remain.

[diggan]

> At the moment there is still a one-time order fee for dedicated servers

For (some) dedicated servers, I think. Last time I checked the lowest tiered dedicated servers didn't have any setup fees. If it's not mentioned, assumed it'll remain.

[MathiasPius]

As diggan said, there's usually at least one of their dedicated server offerings for which setup fees are waived, so I figure my tests would use the API to find out which one and use it :)