Why cant I find unique IP hosting in UK?

[TomJ]

I think either I'm being thick and looking in the wrong places or it doesnt exist at a sensible price!

I'm after hosting for about 50 or 60 websites at present all with unique IP's and hosted in UK.

One method suggested was a managed server and add new IP's at £50 per domain.....so...£350 per month for server plus £50 per IP......OUCH.

Can anyone help me?

Cheers, Tom.

[bateman_ap]

Most places you can get a dedicated server will give you a new ip for maybe £1.50 a month. The problem will be justifying all these additional addresses to RIPE. They no longer really accept the fact you need a new ip for each site. However if you wanted you could always say something like you need them as staging servers for lots of clients where they won't have a domain name yet, you need to run some mail servers etc. I have never seen them come back later after checking up on you.

[TomJ]

btw, it was DSVR who quoted me the above!

the chap did mention the allocation of IP's was "regulated" . but that price is mental!

[py9jmas]

I didn't think RIPE allowed people to charge for IP address as such.

From:
[ripe.net...]

Thus, while registries may charge for their administrative and technical services, they may not charge for name space or address space as such; no unit cost or price tag can be attached to a domain name or to an IP address, public or private.

The colo services I have looked at in London have all said they charged say £10-15 one-off admin charge for extra IPs, assuming you can justify the need to RIPE. Hosting websites does not need more than one IP number.