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Originally Posted by Spudstr
nameserver do not require unique ips.. and have not required unique IP's for over 10 years now.
SSL and hosts machines are the only reason why people need unique ip addresses. Unless running multiple services over the same port that are different applications then you need unique ips as well.
i.e varnish, lighttpd, squid, apache, whateverelse goes here.
IPv4 is running out. We deny people who ask for IP's weekly. So yes if you are ever looking at yellow fiber for hosting and demand more than a reasonable amount of ips. i.e5 to 16 then you will be denied. And we are not the host for you. We have hundreds of happy customers that do very very well in the seo world and don't use hundreds of ips.
The whole unique IP address game is going to be irrelevant in the next few years.. Why? IPv6 is going tot ake over and at that point no one is even going to care. Until then IPv4 space is a resource, a valuable one. ARIN is only allocating IP allocations for additional space based off 3 month projection usage. Yes. We are out of IP space. Someone go thank china for taking almost half the worlds ip space.
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What in your mind is a reasonable amount of ips? IpV4 might be running out but you also got to understand more and more company's are turning in legacy space, and arin, ripe and others are slowly taking ips over from company's that are dead.
IPV6 may be the future but it is still years away. Most of this country, not to mention most of the world does not have equipment to handle IPv6 and the reason why it is continued to be delayed is because of the cost to prepare the networks for IPv6 (Routers, Man Hours)
I say this personally. I think it is wrong for any host to deny IPv4 if the space is available and a customer has a legit reason to use it. I am sick and tired of these games on how ARIN is not handing out new IP Space, and or a host to tell a client they do not need that much ip space and bully them into either putting up with it or moving.