ullus12
big business usually use their own network stack as stock bsd is at most suited for soho workloads
2. dtag is ofc present in frankfurt and at de-cix, with little capacity for public peerings as mentioned.
This and your 3/4 each make sense, as they represent a legit business interest for the different sides. Hetzner preffering cheapass open and dtag preffering scalable private peerings.
Problem i see is Hetzner externalizing the cost of private peerings. Which in return plays into 1. and the example of them externalizing other cost factors.
Most of their Servers are in east-germany where
* labor,land,power,darkfibre is cheaper
* they can harvest developement subs from the goverment [1]
[1] https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
So maybe there point of view, beeing more important than any public exchange, is not far fetched as it is most certainly a business reality.
Hetzner making a stand for net neutrality is a joke. They are asking your money for better service.
and they were like "sure cosider it done"?
yet i doubt that buying from a (DSL-)Reseller is improving service quality and prices are roughly the same.
Whereas DTAG _does_ way better.
I dont like it, but as others have said: Relying on transit peering will not work well once you reach certain traffic levels.
Also you can get Servers from Strato (DTAG Sub) for about the same price as from Hetzner and pump your Traffic directly into a Tier1.