Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

Re:Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwi... by Aachen on Thursday November 28, 2024 @08:07PM (#42269913)

That seems fair to me though. If that ISP (whatever the WHOIS resolves to for your VPN) gets a high rate of fraudulent customers, how is Hetzner to know if you're the same fraudster again or a new customer? Especially if you share not just the ISP but even your IP address with someone... we also rate limit logins for example based on IP address. If you're coming from the same origin as an attacker, there's no way for me to tell who's who

Perhaps they could implement some way to do a 1-cent bank transfer from an account with a name which isn't on their fraud list, but as a simple step it seems pretty normal to use your regular internet connection (that ties the IP+timestamp combination to a real-world subscriber) and not some anonymity service

Although it would be nice if we could be anonymous on the web, when abuse traffic is involved (more than posting a comment on some forum as an anonymous source or something), I don't know how that'd be possible to reconcile

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Re:Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwi... by crowcroft on Friday November 29, 2024 @01:32PM (#42275908)

I get it, but you'll get a lost of false positives as well. My experience is that they also had slow customer service.

I don't want any business critical infra managed by a company willing to be that aggressive in blocking accounts, while also having slow customer service to resolve access issues.

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