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For 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 pe
by tastybites 16y ago
For 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.