Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Tue Apr 21 23:41:46 UTC 2009

On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Ken A wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com> said:
>>> Since  virtual web hosting has no technical justification for IP  
>>> space, I  refuse it.
>> SSL and FTP are techincal justifications for an IP per site.
>
> Right. Also, monthly bandwidth monitoring/shaping/capping are more  
> easily done using one ip per hosted domain, or ftp site, or  
> whatever. Otherwise you are parsing logs or using 3rd party apache  
> modules.

*Shrug* I've been doing IP allocations for 14 years and that's never  
been mentioned to me.

I suspect that anyone with enough traffic to need traffic shaping has  
dedicated hosts or virtual servers, which get a unique IP each.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness