Zurich1984

This is exactly why I watch the market. /24 plus ASN setup will run you $4000 for the space plus $500-1000 annual for RIR fees and IRR maintenance, more if you want RPKI signing handled by a third party. Then transit minimums.

Not a "budge...

Grandmother's funeral, 2019, and I was in the middle of reading the eulogy when the watch started buzzing. Apple Watch on silent, but the haptic is *strong* when it's the third escalation. Stepped out, found the chapel's one bar of WiFi, and spent 20 minutes in a stairwell that smelled of incense an...

/24 will cost you a kidney

Saw a /24 sell last week for $3800 at auction. Five years ago that was $1200. Now every burned range that gets delisted is "premium clean" and they want $6000.

The scarcity makes providers reuse anything. Dirty IP, clean IP, doesn't matter, someone will buy it. /24 will...

Prices only go up

/24 will cost you a kidney. $12k last month on ipv4market. Used to be $8k in 2024.

You want PI space for this? Good luck with RIPE last /22 policy. LIRs sitting on hoarded blocks renting at $0.50/IP/month.

BGP table growth is IPv4 table growth. More deaggregation, more /2...

Nuremberg. And IPv4 is the hidden subsidy. Some providers pack 20 VMs behind one /24 and call each "dedicated" because they get a whole IPv4. The IP costs more than the "server."

The IPv4 market is why they don't care. I watched a /22 sell last month for more than my apartment. Every month they delay IPv6 is another month they can squeeze lease renewals.

You do not amortize IP addresses like a car. They appreciate. That /24 bought in 2020 for $22k sells today for $48k. It is an asset, not a cost.

The people paying €2/month to OVHcloud are renting. The people buying /24s are holding. Di...

Contabo servers? At 30% markup? That's not "indépendant", that's dropshipping.

Run the numbers on a NUC drawing 15W vs a Contabo VPS for three years. The breakeven is closer than you think, and that's before you value the RAM and disk you actually control....

Wanted a /24 for a small hosting project. Checked the usual spots, brokers asking $45-50 per IP now. Last year it was $38. Year before that $28.

Where are people even buying these days? RIR waitlists are basically "check back in 2028." brokers all feel like the same three guys with different websit...