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My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008. Now I can expect another 20%? I don'
by sschueller 4y ago
My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008.
Now I can expect another 20%?
I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.
- pointlessone 4y agoIPv4 addresses are a scarce resource and we’re running out of them. Of course they will go up in price.
- sschueller 4y agoBut isn't it against IANA policy to sell or let other resell IPs?
- geerlingguy 4y agoThink of it more like a "lease" — you don't own the IP, just the right to apply it to one of your instances for a time.
- bombcar 4y agoExactly. And to linode’s credit they default give you free IPv6 so it’s an option. I had a database server on IPv6 only for awhile (though you can do the same with private IPs if you need, it’s easier to SSH directly). AWS would charge for static IPs and absolutely no way to get IPv6 pretty recently, I think they might finally be changing.
- ThatPlayer 4y agoI'm surprised more services don't do IPv6 only. Vultr has it, but only for a lowest end plan. My stack on Linode uses private IPs and do not need a public IPv4 address at all.
- godzillabrennus 4y agoJust another reason to put Cloudflare in front of your website so you can have ipv4 and ipv6 with SSL and a WAF for free.
- bombcar 4y agoCloud flare will someday want their money, too.
- RowanH 4y agoThis is the thing that scares the most about hitching my wagon to cloudflare, the pricing is 'too reasonable' for what you get, one day when you're putting through a tonne of traffic and reliant on their services you get the "the time has come..." email. Bam...
- chihwei 4y agoI hope they can bill me a fair price; otherwise their service can't sustain for long.