Comment by nurettin
3 days ago
Yes I wasn't banned or anything, they aren't barbarians. Also, explain your opinion don't just put it out there. This is not a football match.
3 days ago
Yes I wasn't banned or anything, they aren't barbarians. Also, explain your opinion don't just put it out there. This is not a football match.
I felt like the arguments behind my opinion were implicit.
Consistently not showing bias makes for trustworthy lists. Nobody (well, nobody reasonable I'd argue) will trust an IP blacklist from a major hosting company that actively excludes their own customers.
As for banning customers that get blacklisted, this does actually happen, especially on the more affordable cloud hosts that get plagued with massive scraper and bot loads. Anything from suspended, inaccessible servers that require manual intervention to network caps or CPU load caps. This is a rather extreme measure, but not one uncommon or even unacceptable depending on the exact IP blacklist you managed to trigger.
Maybe you didn't get the nuance here:
Hetzner says (not exact wording) "according to this public blacklist you seem to be performing something they consider bad".
What they don't mention is that they operate the list.