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fwiw, ATT charges me $15 for ~8 fixed ipv4 addresses on my gigabit plan. Even if we amortize against the total monthly bill of $113, we get ~$15 per IP.

EDIT: I guess this is the cost to _rent_ an IP per month and not the cost of _owning_ an IPv4 address.

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My ISP has one of the better options where you can permanently lease an IPv4 address for a deposit of $100 AUD. The lease is indefinite, and when you don't want it any more you get the $100 back.

incredibly smart deal

> you get the $100 back.

It doesn’t account for inflation?

It's great that AT&T offers static IPs, but I should charge them about $600 for my time because it took me 3.5 hours of playing games with the automated support line and explaining to their tech support what static IP addresses are, and that it doesn't matter "what version of Windows my servers are running."

Right. I pay about 50 Euro cents per month for each of mine, so my provider gets about $10 a year let's say. Which means they'll pay for themselves in 3 years on average, after that it's all profit, assuming they are still useful.

At some point. At SOME point, IPv6 will work in enough situations that we can ignore the small minority of situations where it doesn't. If even 90% of the visitors to my web sites could connect on IPv6 I would change tomorrow, but it just isn't that high yet.

I'm paying $100 a month for a /27. So I can assign a real IPv4 to my smart fridge! I might even do that one day, before throwing it out.

$30 for a /27 on ATT. Totally worth it.

What do you use for?

I have 5gbit fiber from ATT and self host all my services

What sort of stuff do you do to make sure those are services hardened? And what kinds of services? I've been meaning to create such a setup, but am a bit concerned about vulnerabilities.

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