IP Addresses (How do I get more?)

dedipath_refugee

Hi all, I'll apologize in advanced if this is answered elsewhere, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to get a few more ip addresses without breaking the bank. Right now I primarily use RackNerd and their prices for VPSs are great (~$10 a year), but it essentially doubles the cost or more just to add 1 additional IPV4 address (it's literally cheaper just to spin up another VPS at that point). Is there some more affordable way to get a few more addresses? I've got a few domains and would like each to have a dedicated IP, but all pointing to the same VPS. Thanks!

totally_not_banned

Not really. IPv4s are simply expensive even wholesale. You might find some providers ( @tentor ) selling them at 0.65€/m but that's already pretty much the bottom of the barrel. You could probably lease a whole /24 and have it announced somewhere to come in at ~0.50€/IP though.

wedge1001

Is there really a need to use dedicated IPs?
I only have some specific use-cases where you can’t use a single IP for multiple services.

There is the option of a GRE-tunnel.
You can get some addresses and tunnel them to your VPS.
There should be one or two provider here, offering such a tunnel.
But even then expect something like 1€/month/IP

dedipath_refugee

@totally_not_banned said:
Not really. IPv4s are simply expensive even wholesale. You might find some providers ( @tentor ) selling them at 0.65€/m but that's already pretty much the bottom of the barrel. You could probably lease a whole /24 and have it announced somewhere to come in at ~0.50€/IP though.

Got it, are IPV6 addresses any cheaper? (And as a followup, any real downside to hosting a site as IPV6 only?)

kevinds

@dedipath_refugee said:
Hi all, I'll apologize in advanced if this is answered elsewhere, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to get a few more ip addresses without breaking the bank. Right now I primarily use RackNerd and their prices for VPSs are great (~$10 a year), but it essentially doubles the cost or more just to add 1 additional IPV4 address (it's literally cheaper just to spin up another VPS at that point). Is there some more affordable way to get a few more addresses? I've got a few domains and would like each to have a dedicated IP, but all pointing to the same VPS. Thanks!

At ~$1/month for an extra IP, just pay that.

dedipath_refugee

@wedge1001 said:
Is there really a need to use dedicated IPs?
I only have some specific use-cases where you can’t use a single IP for multiple services.

There is the option of a GRE-tunnel.
You can get some addresses and tunnel them to your VPS.
There should be one or two provider here, offering such a tunnel.
But even then expect something like 1€/month/IP

Mostly that I don't want people to be able to associate the domains as being all owned / operated by the same person. Some of the sites are personal stuff and others are more public facing and I don't love to mix them.

I can look into GRE-tunelling though.

tentor

@dedipath_refugee said: Got it, are IPV6 addresses any cheaper?

We provide /64 for free and /56 also for free per request.

emgh

@dedipath_refugee said:

@wedge1001 said:
Is there really a need to use dedicated IPs?
I only have some specific use-cases where you can’t use a single IP for multiple services.

There is the option of a GRE-tunnel.
You can get some addresses and tunnel them to your VPS.
There should be one or two provider here, offering such a tunnel.
But even then expect something like 1€/month/IP

Mostly that I don't want people to be able to associate the domains as being all owned / operated by the same person. Some of the sites are personal stuff and others are more public facing and I don't love to mix them.

I can look into GRE-tunelling though.

Cloudflare. You will get the same nameserver pairs, so it’s still not anonymous by any means (but so isn’t different IPs on the same /24 either), but they won’t be even close to as connected as if they were on the same IP. And it’s free.