[113804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Apr 21 20:34:50 2009
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:34:39 -0400
To: "Ken A" <ka@pacific.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49EE5520.1070304@pacific.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:22:08 -0400, Ken A <ka@pacific.net> wrote:
> Also, monthly bandwidth monitoring/shaping/capping are more easily done
> using one ip per hosted domain...
That's why the infrastructure is "virtualized" and you monitor at or
behind the firewall(s) and/or load balancer(s) -- where it *is* one IP per
customer. Sure, it's easier (and cheaper) to be lazy and waste address
space than setup a proper hosting network.