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Nothing. Even if you host websites, nothing until ipv4 actually gets scarce or costly. Just because all ipv4 address space is "allocated" doesn't mean it's us
by axod 16y ago
Nothing.
Even if you host websites, nothing until ipv4 actually gets scarce or costly.
Just because all ipv4 address space is "allocated" doesn't mean it's used or even allocated to end users.
I'd start worrying when you have to pay a lot of money to get a second IP on a server for example.
That'll probably be years away.... still good to read up on ipv6 though.
- xearl 16y agoYears away? Gosh! Depends a bit on where you want your servers to be located, I guess, but still. For a lot of server hosting customers, prices for additional IPs have already increased steadily over the last few months. But don't take my word for it, here's a bit from a recent APNIC announcement, for example: "APNIC expects normal allocations to continue for a further three to six months." (https://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation https://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/delegation)
- tastybites 16y agoFor a lot of server hosting customers, prices for additional IPs have already increased steadily over the last few months That's just retail markup. If you peer with tier 1 transit providers you can still get IPv4 space for practically nothing.
- dpifke 16y agoPractically nothing? Are there tier-1 providers charging for IP space now? I can confirm that neither Level3 nor Global Crossing charge for IP allocations as of a month ago. (The whole "charging for IP addresses" racket always left a bad taste in my mouth, since it's a public resource for which ISPs aren't paying, other than the overhead of being expected to justify and account for the space they've been allocated.)
- tastybites 16y agoLevel 3 doesn't charge us either - what's really funny is some of the second-string ISP's actually pay you to take IP space from them.
- cft 16y agoCogent gave us /22 (1024 IPs) free of charge in December.