[krab]

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.

[mkesper]

Here's what they say themselves: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-setup-fees-adjus...

[krab]

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.

[PunchyHamster]

...but servers come with virtualization on by default for like... at least a decade if not more

So they literally want money to fix what they fucked up the first time