I was reading recently about whether you can get IP allocations and it seemed to me that ARIN basically requires that you show that you’ll be using some large percentage of addresses right away and keep growing that usage. Basically they seem to want to give them to ISPs or hosting providers. Can you can your own IPv6 block as a private small business?
There's otherways to qualify for an IPv6 delegation, but GP wants to be multihomed, at least a little.
Do you happen to know any guides on how to set up and use your own IP space, either with my ISP or with a cloud provider.
They'll most likely have rules/procedures for setting up BGP and what not. Look for 'bring your own ips' or similar language in cloud providers. Residential ISPs probably won't support it, but commercial ISPs all should, and may possibly help you with the ARIN procedures.
If I need to go through the rigamarole of tunnel brokering, BGP advertising, etc, I may as well just get my own block from ARIN. Vultr offers BGP brokering for a pittance, and they (presumably) have peering arrangements that handle the HE/Cogent debacle. I also want to try to get an IPv4 block, so I can enjoy SMTP hosting portability across ISPs. It would be nice to not be constantly harassed by Cogent sales staff. One of these days....