Originally Posted by Sly

As mentioned already in this thread, it does prevent people from needing them needlessly. Otherwise people would use a different IP for every domain. When you host thousands upon thousands of domains, thats quite a few IPs, meaning quite a few dollars.

Listen guys, hosting companies don't charge for IPs to be pricks. We try to accommodate our clients whenever possible. But, hosting companies ARE a business. Everything can't be given away for free. If $1 is really too much money for somebody to spend on an IP, I'm sorry but odds are that person will never do a lot of hosting business. On a dedicated server of $100, profit is already extremely minimal. Add more IPs, you're eating away the profit even more. And let's get real, you guys who use up IPs rarely use very much bandwidth anyway.

I have many, many clients who order chunks of IPs and have absolutely no problem paying for them.