30-Jan-2005 - Direct ARIN IP Allocation
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:28 am
Hi guys,
Well theres good news in the air before the close of January.
We have applied for, and been granted a block of IP's direct from ARIN. ARIN is the regulatory body for the IP space that the vast majority of North America is required to utilize, either directly, or indirectly (through their ISP, which has an allocation from ARIN).
This means that we will begin a new IP migration, as some of you guys have been through before. We will make every possible effort to ensure the impact is minimal, and both sets of IP's are lit at the same time, etc.
Customers utilizing CPanel will find this a breeze, as CPanel implamented numerous improvements in their IP management systems during the last quarter of 2004, which have been tested, and are extremely effective.
Since this allocation is direct from ARIN, who are the regulatory body that we are required to use due to location, this will be the last, and final major IP migration. Once this is complete, we will be 100% provider independant (currently, we receive Peer1 IP's, and are thus dependant on them to a level).
Customers may switch between VLAN sizes if justified, or between shared subnets, and private VLAN's, or vice versa during this migration. Gaming customers may be allocated IP addresses with the last octet in the lowest possible range upon request, as we understand this is important to your business. Customers will also be permitted to aggregate, or deaggregate servers into/out of private shared VLAN's if desired. Anyone wanting to make major changes to their IP configurations should certainly seize this opportunity.
Our target date to have this move complete is 30-Jun-2005 (5 months) which I think everyone will agree is quite reasonable. We have begun routing the IP's, and assigning them internally, but not publishing to customers which netblocks they will be relocated to. Customers wishing to get an early start on this should email admin@prioritycolo.com
As always, anyone increasing the size of their netblocks, or customers who have over 10 IP addresses, and have not submitted any form of justification over the years will be requested to provide reasonable justification, as ARIN has made themselves (as always) crystal clear about utilization requirements.
If anyone has any questions, please let me know VIA email at admin@prioritycolo.com . I hope everyone enjoys this new expansion step as much as I am.
Regards,
Well theres good news in the air before the close of January.
We have applied for, and been granted a block of IP's direct from ARIN. ARIN is the regulatory body for the IP space that the vast majority of North America is required to utilize, either directly, or indirectly (through their ISP, which has an allocation from ARIN).
This means that we will begin a new IP migration, as some of you guys have been through before. We will make every possible effort to ensure the impact is minimal, and both sets of IP's are lit at the same time, etc.
Customers utilizing CPanel will find this a breeze, as CPanel implamented numerous improvements in their IP management systems during the last quarter of 2004, which have been tested, and are extremely effective.
Since this allocation is direct from ARIN, who are the regulatory body that we are required to use due to location, this will be the last, and final major IP migration. Once this is complete, we will be 100% provider independant (currently, we receive Peer1 IP's, and are thus dependant on them to a level).
Customers may switch between VLAN sizes if justified, or between shared subnets, and private VLAN's, or vice versa during this migration. Gaming customers may be allocated IP addresses with the last octet in the lowest possible range upon request, as we understand this is important to your business. Customers will also be permitted to aggregate, or deaggregate servers into/out of private shared VLAN's if desired. Anyone wanting to make major changes to their IP configurations should certainly seize this opportunity.
Our target date to have this move complete is 30-Jun-2005 (5 months) which I think everyone will agree is quite reasonable. We have begun routing the IP's, and assigning them internally, but not publishing to customers which netblocks they will be relocated to. Customers wishing to get an early start on this should email admin@prioritycolo.com
As always, anyone increasing the size of their netblocks, or customers who have over 10 IP addresses, and have not submitted any form of justification over the years will be requested to provide reasonable justification, as ARIN has made themselves (as always) crystal clear about utilization requirements.
If anyone has any questions, please let me know VIA email at admin@prioritycolo.com . I hope everyone enjoys this new expansion step as much as I am.
Regards,