Hetzner charges a fee for setting up your bare-metal machine. Often zero for their smaller machines and for those in auction. Probably they don't want someone to order a large fleet large of machines for one month and then cancel. They might not get another customer for those machines soon.
Good context. They're commenting only on why are they increasing some setup fees though, not justifying their existence. The Hetzner setup fees were in place already before the RAM price hike.
Preppers are maybe the worst of the nonsense cosplay subcultures in modern memory. The moment things go south the people who come out ahead are always the people able to convince and control their fellow humans. The weirdo in the woods with the bunker gets his food stolen on like day 12. The post apocalypse warlord makes it through just fine. Better, maybe!
The key to survival has always been tribal dynamics. This wouldn't change in the apocalypse.
There are multiple companies doing that. I was using one a few years ago, also don't remember the name, haha.
I guess it's an obvious thing to sell, if you go through the process of PCI-DSS compliance. We were definitely considering splitting the company to a part that can handle these data and the rest of the business. The first part could then offer the service to other business, too.
> Could you split up the traffic across dozens or hundreds of IPv6 source addresses?
Yes
> I can see how this significantly increases complexity for tracking
Not really. You just track at some prefix level. In general, the ISP will hand out a /64 per consumer so that's what you can track. From there, you can build more complex and more precise grouping rules for tracking.
In fact, sometimes I open bash even from zsh. When pasting from a script and debugging why something doesn't work as expected, I don't want bash-like. For ad-hoc loops, bash-like works well for me thanks to the familiarity of syntax.
They have some headers for authentication. The payment part is for the price negotiation. The headers tell you that Cloudflare wants to charge you for this particular content and you tell CF that you're OK with being charhed up to $AMOUNT.
I'd say the spirit of open source is that others are free to modify the code and that's it. This requires a good license, the possibility to fork, some documentation and a way to build the project yourself.
But why would accepting contributions be required?
A lot of people are very entitled. They think that an open-source project gives the right to make request/demand of the project. Even if they are willing to write the contribution themselves, they still think they have the right to have their pull request accepted. They forget that 1) it may be outside the scope of the project, and 2) the project owners are going to be the ones that have to actually maintain the code they commit. Crazy stuff.
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