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It's here. IP addresses are costing more and providers are less generous with them. It used to be common to get a handful with a dedicated server, now you get o
by spindritf 13y ago
It's here. IP addresses are costing more and providers are less generous with them. It used to be common to get a handful with a dedicated server, now you get one or two.
I have a friend who runs a small low-cost minecraft hosting. He stopped giving his customers dedicated IPs at all. They get a range of ports and a hostname with appropriate srv records added.
That's the other result, technical work-arounds. You can point to a particular service on a particular port with an srv record, host multiple websites on one IP, even SSL-enabled ones with SNI, etc.
- davidw 13y agoThis is basically how it should work. Prices rise until alternatives become worth thinking about.
- baq 13y agothat's the economic way of thinking. the engineering way would be to fix the artificial scarcity by implementing a technically superior solution.
- davidw 13y agoBut the 'superior solution' is... well, 'sort of', from the economic point of view in this case: it has costs that are, for some people, higher than those of the alternative.
- adventured 13y agoThere is always an endless line of other things to deal with in both the economic and engineering realms. Squeaky wheels tend to get the attention in both. When the IP situation causes enough discomfort, there will be an avalanche transition, and probably not a moment sooner.
- baq 13y agoi agree completely, to my great distaste.
- gwright 13y agoSRV records are terribly underused/underimplemented
- inopinatus 13y agoThat will change if, and probably only if, we can get https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/381 https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/381 off the ground.
- lflux 13y agoUnfortunately if you have customers using IE on XP or older Android phones, SNI doesn't work and you need to use SAN certificates. EV-certificates with SAN is another huge amount of hassle I wish on nobody.
- csense 13y agoThe SRV record is interesting -- basically extending DNS from a (name) -> (address) mapping to (name, service) -> (address, port) mapping For whatever its drawbacks, IPv6 at least requires few application-layer changes. So I think it's a better solution to the problem than SRV records.