Where to buy an IP address

I want to buy an IP address in order to host my websites in my own server(s); is there any (good) website that sells IP addresses ONLY (no webhosting)?

 

From where have you got the servers ? they can provide you additional IP address or are you hosting it at home

 

why do you need ipadresses from someone when you have your own servers ?

 

TY for your quick replies.

My current webhost offer dedicated IP, but what I want is only the IP address (I don't need webhosting).
Please go to http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/requirements.html , read the list of requirements... I have everything listed there, all I need now is the IP address...

FYI: I'm a noob and I do this for learning purposes

 

Just ask your ISP (The company that gave you the internet connection). They can provide you static ip address.

 

Only your ISp can provide you IP address if you have the server at your own facility. ALso, if you have it at some DC, you need to ask the DC for that.

 

In this case only your ISP can provide IP address, contact your internet service provider.
However its never a good idea to host webserver on DSL especially if you want reliability and stability.
Hopefully you have good reason to do it

 

TY for your help

 

Ilxeon, can you please tell me why is it not a good idea to host webserver on DSL? Is it due to upload speed limitation from ASP? What should I do if I want to maintain a webserver at home?

 

Limited bandwidth, and if your connection with your ISP goes down the server is unavailable. And you might not even be permitted by your ISP to have a server up and running. And if you get a power outage, you're server goes down too (unless you have a UPS, but what is the power is out for several hours?).

The list goes on and on.. The general advice is that if you make money from your websites, you might as well pay to have those sites up and running at all time.

 

TY for your advice, I'll do this for learning purposes only, with a testing domain name that I own.

 

Just use dyn_dns. It is free and you don't have to worry about static IPs. To have a IP Address you have to have a router and it has to be registered through ICANN. This way they know where to pass all the traffic for that IP Address. You also have to purchase atleast a class C block. You have good intentions but lack of knowledge. Getting familiar with basic TCP/IP principals is a good idea.

 

Here are some reasons why its not an good idea.

1. The electricity bills are going to cost much more than a typical hosting.

2. Most ISPs disallow webserving. You must call them and ask.
And you can't hide either, as the traffic usage of a webserver is significantly different then that of a normal user. upload is alot more than download.

3. You are offering no redundancy at all. If your computer dies, thats it.

4. Are you placing it in 24/7 air-con (which raises electricity bills?) Computers are likely to overheat without being in air-con and left on 24/7.

5. What's your upload speed? Note that upload and download speeds are different, and most ISPs provide very low upload speeds. At this rate, 2 or 3 users can flood your upload line and cause your site to be inaccessible to the other users. you will never have a 100Mb connection or even a dedicated 10Mb connection. So the sites will load very slow.


And moreover Upstream provided by ISP are generally VERY Poor

Hope it helps

 

Thanks for detailed reply. That's what I was expecting too.

 

Here is an interesting link which states how to start running your webserver on home DSL. If you want to learn webserving, you need to start at your home. I think, this guy did a lot of experimenting.

dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/requirements.html

Hope it will helpful to you.

 

I guess you didn't read the thread (4th post)

 

I sent you a pm