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Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#1

Post by chatmasta » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 10:26 PM UTC

I have a network with 10,000+ IP addresses and 20 servers. Currently I rent the IPs out formats scraping proxies and am expanding into a VPN service like HideMyAss. Does anyone have any ideas for how I could better utilize these addresses? The average resource usage of the servers is a little more than 2% right now.

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#2

Post by ksdlck » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

In what country are the servers and their IPs?

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#3

Post by conductor » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

If you don't come up with a good idea, please consider configuring Tor Relays[1] to donate your bandwidth to those who need it. You may have legal troubles though[2].

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en

[2] https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#4

Post by lifeisstillgood » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

Create an AS, present your IPs as a end point and route internally to ISPs - there will be ISPs who will feel the pain of no Ip4 soon and will pay and accept the routing headaches for access to another 10,000

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#5

Post by heretic529 » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

i would start an isp

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#6

Post by chatmasta » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 1:21 AM UTC

ksdlck wrote: post #2

In what country are the servers and their IPs?

All in the US with 1gbit ports.

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#7

Post by chatmasta » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 1:22 AM UTC

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #4

Create an AS, present your IPs as a end point and route internally to ISPs - there will be ISPs who will feel the pain of no Ip4 soon and will pay and accept the routing headaches for access to another 10,000

What is an AS?

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

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Post by Bofu2U » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 1:37 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #6

ksdlck wrote: post #2

In what country are the servers and their IPs?

All in the US with 1gbit ports.

Just keep the IP's quality. If you are underutilized then sell more.

Re: Ask HN: I have 10,000 IP addresses over 20 servers - how should I use them?

#9

Post by guyinblackshirt » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 2:53 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #7

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #4

Create an AS, present your IPs as a end point and route internally to ISPs - there will be ISPs who will feel the pain of no Ip4 soon and will pay and accept the routing headaches for access to another 10,000

What is an AS?

Autonomous System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_(Internet)