[members-discuss] Interesting IP count

Hi William, Lu & others,

> >And it would be very interesting if someone from Ripe NCC can share with us what is the most IP consuming business in the planet.

> Dedicated Servers/VPS/Colocation and Datacenter services in General i guess.

Don't forget SSL hosting.

Also a lot of hosting companies provide extra IP's for management like IPO, so instead of only 1 IP per server, they would require a second IP per server.
Some things could be improved here if hosting companies would only allow that kind of connections on private IP's via a central VPN box. However valid, I don't expect hosting companies to change their behavior in conserving IP's up to a point where they are running out.

A question that I have, is will we see (do we expect) implementations of reverse proxies in front of (shared) hosting environments ? It would make things more complex to troubleshoot, but with the current speed of implementations in the field ... I wouldn't be surprised if we would.

Regards,
Erik Bais