Buying an IP Block

Networking & Firewalls
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Has anyone used IPv4.global or other platforms before?

We just moved offices and have this small ISP that has exclusive rights to sell the service to the tenants. Not a big deal, their prices are reasonable, but they limit each account to 5 public IP addresses. We do a lot of self-hosting and need more than the 5 public addresses currently. I have a proxy service already set up, along with using our firewall/router to double up services that use different ports. I could really use 5 more to make this entire situation better.

I know I would need a way to advertise this, but otherwise, I’m not sure what I don’t know about this. All the sites that talk about this seem pretty shady.

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The providing ISP is not likely to support adding your own ASN with a /24 block of IP’s so it would be better to look at moving to a colo rack of a local hosting company.

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I have used IPX0 for our /23 and they have been fine - easy to establish and no nonsense.

I went through the process of getting an ASN and am currently configuring BGP for announcing routes, and that is probably a LOT more work than you would want for getting 10 usable static IP addresses.

Consistent with @LTS_Tom’s advice, you might pay $100 or so for your 10 usable addresses on top of colo fees, but the time/grief saved would be significant