Dedicated Servers and Virtual Private Servers : IP Address Allocation Policies
IP address provided allocation policies are managed by ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers). ARIN Policies include justification of IP usage provided to you. In case of not providing IP justification to ARIN will end in not providing us with new IP address blocks. ARIN has full rights to verify the usage of the IP and which should be verified.
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From ARIN’s policies : ISPs must have efficiently utilized all previous allocations and at least 80% of their most recent allocation in order to receive additional space. When an ISP submits a request for IP address space to be used for IP-based web hosting, it will supply its technical justification for this practice.
In order to match the requirements of ARIN policies and to avoid delay in allocation of IP. We normally ask you to provide us with IP justifications for each IP address that will be assigned to you.
You will require to provide us upto-to-date information on IP allocations. For e.g.
Duration IPs Required Justification
1 Month 8 …..
3 Months 8 …..
6 Months 8 …..
12 Months 8 …..
The first IPs assigned to your dedicated server should be justified by the domain name you will utilize on the server. If you do not have a domain name, you can provide us a sub-domain name as a alternative. This will help us identify the physical server.
The next or the following IP address can be utilized for name-based hosting to provide services to the websites hostes on a server.
Thereafter, you can request for the additional IP for other services running on the server such as SSL certifications or DNS server service required for Dedicated IP address.
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Web hosting “IP based” is not a good justification to obtain additional addresses. Web hosting should be done “named based” on only one IP address. 80% of all assigned IP addresses must be in use within 30 days following attribution.
Please make sure you utilized 80% IPs address prior to requesting additional IP addresses. All IPs must be justified with the domain names, sub-domains and services.
Perhaps, the following question will help you with the IP address Justification :
“Why don’t you use the current server Ip addresses?”
You may provide us with the answer / explanation for the same.
If your IP justifications do not meet ARIN policies, it is a possibility that the request can be denied. Following are some of the situations where the request can be denied :
Request for IP address mainly to dodge search engines for SEO ( Search Engines Optimization ) will be refused. IP request to avoid spam blacklists or sending emails with different IP address will be refused. IP-based web hosting is not adequate justification. Web hosting can only be name-based. All requests for IP addresses which do not meet the standards of the ARIN will be refused.
Domains provided in justification must be assigned to the IP address. When IP address assigned to a service, the service in question must be running on the server and corresponding port must be open.
If you are reseller, you will need to ask your clients the same question that is mentioned above and then provide us with a explaination. We only provide one IP address at the server setup. In order to avail the rest 7 default IPs, you will need to inform our dedicated server department.
Lastly, please make sure you have utilized atleast 80% of the IPs within 30 days. For any further information, please feel free to contact our dedicated server department.
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