[Bright House] Getting more than 13 IPs from BH/RR?

[Bright House] Getting more than 13 IPs from BH/RR?
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vrtigo1 @ 29th Oct 12:09PM:
[Bright House] Getting more than 13 IPs from BH/RR?

I have biz class RR 15/2 at my house where I run a home based business. I currently have a /29 block (5 usable IPs) and need to get more because I'm going to set up a bunch (10+ now and more soon) of SSL websites on my home server.

I talked to BH sales & tech support depts and they both said the max they'll do is a /28 which is only 13 usable IPs. The only solution they offered was to get multiple cable routers and get a block of 13 IPs for each router. This would work but it would be a huge headache and would cost a ton.

I don't want to host the websites somewhere else because it's much easier for me to manage everything on my local servers.

Other business class ISPs will essentially give you as many IPs as you want as long as you can justify them and are willing to pay for them. Are there any ways to get around this restriction? Maybe a special needs dept or something like that?
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gia @ 29th Oct 04:15PM:
Re: [Bright House] Getting more than 13 IPs from BH/RR?

Interesting concept.

The business service that TWC sells is for small/medium business and teleworkers, perhaps you need something like a dedicated service.

»https://www.twcbc.com/Texas/Products/Pro···ess.ashx

I know one local company that is using a TWCBC 30 Mbps dedicated fiber optic connection with a /24 IP block but I have no idea how much they are paying for that beast. Maybe multiple modems is not such a bad idea?
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swintec @ 29th Oct 04:32PM:
Re: [Bright House] Getting more than 13 IPs from BH/RR?

said by vrtigo1 :

I don't want to host the websites somewhere else because it's much easier for me to manage everything on my local servers.

Not trying to knock your choice or anything...but if you had a server (windows, Linux, whatever) hosted in an actual data center and had full root access to it to do whatever you want, what is the difference really? Is your power and cable service uptime really that good, and better than a real datacenter? If so, thats great and I envy you. i do not know what your business is and maybe it isnt directly dependent on website availability and what not, but I'd be a nervous wreck putting my website availability in the hands of my power company and TW service out where I am.

Cost wise...by the time you get more modems and IPs assigned to you, you would be way over $50-$100 per month for some quality hosting.
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vrtigo1 @ 29th Oct 05:46PM:
Re: [Bright House] Getting more than 13 IPs from BH/RR?

We have dedicated fiber with a /24 from Bright House at my "day job" and it runs about $1,400/mo which is waaaay out of my price range.

As far as renting a dedicated server, etc, it's just not something that's feasible for me...there are a lot of reasons why, but a few are: transferring huge files on a regular basis...a bazillion times faster to do when I can drag and drop them across a 10/100/1000 network line instead of waiting for things to upload at 2mbps, my infrastructure isn't just one server, it's a db server, web server, dev/test server, etc, and I have a lot of sensitive info such as SSNs, CC info, etc that I have to store and I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that somewhere where I can't control physical security.

The uptime thing is a valid point, but I've got a good UPS and in the event of a cable outage or an extended power failure, the downtime won't kill me. It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make to be able to keep things at home.
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