Is it still valid to maintain a static IP for a website, or has the mishmash of the web changed that?
Who still pays for a static IP?
(NOTE: I have a few of those coming up for renewal and the pricing keeps RISING!)
Just curious.
graeme_p
6:31 pm on Feb 28, 2024 (gmt 0)
Are you paying a lot each? I mostly get them free with each VM or server but additional IP4s cost extra.
I do not think it matters. I definitely do not worry about sharing an IP across my own site. I am going to put most of my sites behind one IP4.
thecoalman
4:19 am on Mar 6, 2024 (gmt 0)
For me it's important but nothing to do with SEO, in fact SE's wouldn't know it's on a dedicated IP. I was the victim of a DDOS attack that lasted about a week and then a second one a few days later for about 5 days.
Everything but email is now behind Cloudflare and only because they don't proxy email. My main site is on it's own IP, email for that domain is served through another IP . They would able to attack the exposed IP for email but that can be temporarily null routed, I'll lose email and the other minor domains on that IP temporarily but not all that important to me. Assuming I have lined up all my ducks the main site should be untouchable.
[edited by: thecoalman at 5:31 am (utc) on Mar 6, 2024]
lucy24
5:24 am on Mar 6, 2024 (gmt 0)
Does it have to be IPv4? If I wanted one I'd have to pay, but my host does not have the gall to charge for IPv6. (It’s, what, a million IP addresses for every person on the planet? Or is it a trillion?)
SumGuy
2:27 pm on Mar 10, 2024 (gmt 0)
My home and office broadband connections (home is on coax cable, office is on VDSL copper) are using IPv4, the ISP's probably offer IPv6 and my modem/routers probably are compatible with IPv6 but I have no interest in enabling and using IPv6 on my wan side. I host my mail and web server at my office, and I'm sure neither one would know what to do with an IPv6 ip address (mail and web servers are running on win-NT4 boxes). I do pay $10 extra per month for my office IP to be static. My home IP might change once a year, so it's practically static.
I'm under the impression that in US/Canada, that a cell phone using data is probably assigned either a non-routable IPv4 or maybe a routable IPv6 but in any case is using CGNat for IPv4. Maybe once upon a time cell phones actually were assigned routable IPv4 when using carrier data?
But I am curious, particularly in the US, if residential broadband (ie fixed / wired FTTH or otherwise) has moved to CGNat or does every fixed-line residential (or business) US broadband customer still get a routable IPv4 address?
