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This is somewhat of an artificial problem caused by how popular cloud server providers (e.g. EC2 and Brightbox) have chosen to implement their networking. Ther
by agwa 15y ago
This is somewhat of an artificial problem caused by how popular cloud server providers (e.g. EC2 and Brightbox) have chosen to implement their networking. There's no inherent problem with cloud servers. For example, Linode lets you have many public IP addresses associated with a server, just like a traditional server. But it also lets you move IP addresses around between servers in the same data center, so you still have the convenience of the cloud.
- comice 15y agoNAT-style floating IPs have other benefits though. Putting multiple IPs on a cloud server is a mistake imo (it makes them less cloud-like :) - it's not usually needed, and you lose the benefits of having the IPs at a different layer.