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Years 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 I
by xearl 16y ago
Years 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.