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

5 points by chatmasta 13y ago ↗ HN

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.

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ksdlck 13y ago ↗

In what country are the servers and their IPs?

chatmasta 13y ago ↗

All in the US with 1gbit ports.

Bofu2U 13y ago ↗

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

conductor 13y ago ↗

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

lifeisstillgood 13y ago ↗

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

chatmasta 13y ago ↗

What is an AS?

guyinblackshirt 13y ago ↗

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

[dead] heretic529 13y ago ↗

i would start an isp