[tialaramex]

In particular, in the era before SNI support was widespread, your bulk host would charge extra to give you a dedicated IP address so that your HTTPS site worked. It's still an option at some bulk hosts today, you can have free HTTPS that works fine in every browser anybody actually uses or you can pay a few bucks extra so that it also works with the archaic system that one customer never updates.

[notatoad]

a dedicated IP so you can use a non-SNI certificate still costs $600/mo on aws cloudfront.

[542458]

Wow. IPV4 addresses aren’t free, but they’re not usually that expensive either.

[notatoad]

With cloudfront it's not just one IP, it's potentially one at every edge node. But yeah, every time I see that pricing I get a little chuckle because it's so obviously deterrent pricing - it's not how much the IP address costs, it's the minimum amount Amazon wants for dealing with your bullshit.

[SquareWheel]

On most hosts I've used, they're about $2/month.

I wish it were the year 2060 so IPv6 could finally be used reliably.