Static IP for Home ADSL Users

[AndreTheGreat]

Ok, so I have looked around a bit and found that only Axxess offers static IP's for home ADSL users at R59 per month. That is a very reasonable price.

Why they are the only 'big' ISP in South Africa that offers this service, I can't understand. Surely ISP's have gotten a lot of requests to offer this service. And how much can it really cost them to reserve these IP's???

I will never go back to Axxess because they throttle the hell out of you on their uncapped packages , but that puts me in a bit of a conundrum because I reaaallllyyyyyy want a static IP to host my own websites, mail servers etc. Purely for testing and learning purposes though. I guess the best I can do is dyndns names but it is not ideal.

Come now Webafrica, Afrihost, Mweb...Follow Axxess' example in this regard.

Andre

 

[ponder]

I think most ISPs offer static IPs for their business accounts but I speak under correction.

 

[irBosOtter]

Phone them and ask, some do offer it, they just don't advertise it. (On home ADSL products)
And it would be included on most business ADSL products

 

[deweyzeph]

Afrihost also offers static IP's. The problem is that all static IP's on ADSL in South Africa are offered through a VPN connection so there are performance issues and you have to buy a router that supports a very specific type of VPN connection.

 

[GforceD]

why would you want to though? Static IP's are oldschool when you hosted your own website before you had VPS and Webhosting and dns services.
Plus static IP's make it easier to be targeted with trojan, DDOS and malware.

 

[Crystal Web]

Afrihost also offers static IP's. The problem is that all static IP's on ADSL in South Africa are offered through a VPN connection so there are performance issues and you have to buy a router that supports a very specific type of VPN connection.

Correct. It's simply not marketed to home users as it's a tiny market and typically of very little use these days to home users.