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Originally Posted by pr0
But does Arin charge you $1 per ip?
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No they charge less, but you have to buy bulk, you have to sign a year contract and you have to have the equiptment to route those ip's. Thats why we charge $1 a ip, good routing equiptment is not cheap (our cisco 6509 switch/router ran us $60k) Im sure alot of providers will give them to you for free, but im also sure they do not own their ip blocks and they dont do high end routing in their enviroment. I could be wrong, but i have been in the high end hosting business for 8 years and all good hosts charge for ip space after a certain amount.
Also remember there are only so many ip addresses to go around and by charging for ip's after a certain amount is given to a hosting client keeps people from abusing it. When you have to pay for them it makes you only take what you need.