My VPS provider is running a promotion where I can get up to 5 additional public IPv4 addresses for a one-time cost of $25 each. I have always only used a single public IP address per VPS. Would there be any advantage of having additional public IP addresses?

I know some people do not consider a VPS self-hosting, but this is the most relevant community I could think of and the question is also applicable for homelabs as well.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    It depends on the use-case. If this VPS doesn’t have layer7 routing out in front, you have a service that needs to respond from an A/CNAME hostname in combination with an SRV lookup, you have service that uses bidirectional TLS 1.2…etc.

    There’s all kinds of reasons you may need multiple static IPs for an instance. If youre just using vhosts for HTTP capable services, don’t worry about it though.