[sschueller]

My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008.

Now I can expect another 20%?

I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.

[pointlessone]

IPv4 addresses are a scarce resource and we’re running out of them. Of course they will go up in price.

[sschueller]

But isn't it against IANA policy to sell or let other resell IPs?

[geerlingguy]

Think of it more like a "lease" — you don't own the IP, just the right to apply it to one of your instances for a time.

[bombcar]

Exactly. And to linode’s credit they default give you free IPv6 so it’s an option. I had a database server on IPv6 only for awhile (though you can do the same with private IPs if you need, it’s easier to SSH directly).

AWS would charge for static IPs and absolutely no way to get IPv6 pretty recently, I think they might finally be changing.

[ThatPlayer]

I'm surprised more services don't do IPv6 only. Vultr has it, but only for a lowest end plan. My stack on Linode uses private IPs and do not need a public IPv4 address at all.

[godzillabrennus]

Just another reason to put Cloudflare in front of your website so you can have ipv4 and ipv6 with SSL and a WAF for free.

[bombcar]

Cloud flare will someday want their money, too.

[RowanH]

This is the thing that scares the most about hitching my wagon to cloudflare, the pricing is 'too reasonable' for what you get, one day when you're putting through a tonne of traffic and reliant on their services you get the "the time has come..." email. Bam...

[chihwei]

I hope they can bill me a fair price; otherwise their service can't sustain for long.