Ask HN: How many IPv4 addresses does Digital Ocean currently use?

Posted by rajeemcariazo on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:15AM
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IPv4 addresses is running out. One factor is because VPS are going cheap nowadays. Do you know how many IPv4 addresses does Digital Ocean currently use?

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Re:Ask HN: How many IPv4 addresses does Digital Ocean curren... by Arnt on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:35AM (#8766482)

http://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=digital+ocean returns a list of Digital Ocean's ASes. An AS is a top-level chunk of the network, so you may assume that Digital Ocean operates seven technically independent networks with a total of about half a million IPv4 addresses.

By way of comparison: Before the strict IPv4 rationing regimes came into force, v4 addresses were being allocated at rate of about half a million per day.

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Re:Ask HN: How many IPv4 addresses does Digital Ocean curren... by gDD on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:32AM (#8766365)

From this[1] 2014 article:

> As of November, DigitalOcean counts a total 187,866 active users running a cloud server (or “Droplet”)

Hard to tell if the number is active users or active droplets.

[1]: http://wptavern.com/digitalocean-is-now-the-third-largest-ho...

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Re:Ask HN: How many IPv4 addresses does Digital Ocean curren... by junopatch on Thursday December 18, 2014 @04:14AM (#8766571)

i was expecting more :)

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