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Show HN: Hoppy – Public IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses over WireGuard

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This looks fascinating, but I would imagine cost will either be high, or there won't be enough IP addresses. I have a friend who runs a small ISP and IP addresses are not cheap. To have one per device for most people will take a lot of IPs wouldn't it?

I'm intrigued though. I just got my Starlink dish and am about to set it up, and Starlink doesn't offer static IPs (everything is CGNATed). I'm spoiled right now with my static IP.

Pricing page: https://hoppy.network/pricing/

$8 for 1tb 100/100mbs connection $16 for 2tb 500/500mbs connection

Though, in theory you could do the same with a standard vps from digital ocean or the like... and you'd have upstream compute too... and it might be a little cheaper...

Yes, running Streisand or Algo on a small DO droplet will net out to be a better choice than this. You are going to get the potential to run some services on the endpoint, you can map a DNS name to the droplet so that both A and PTR records are always accurate, and you can use a variety of VPN protocols. The venn diagram of people who are capable of running Wireguard (for now) and people who can easily spin up a cloud instance like this seems to have 100% overlap.

It’s not easy to find clean IPs, especially for running mail services. We purchase clean IP addresses that make it easier to set up your cloud services without being black listed or associated with malicious IP blocks.

Where can you find clean IPs for sale?

I want a service like this which can do anycast...

Ie. I want to have an IP address pointed to vm's hosted in 3 Google cloud regions, where the client is connected to the nearest by network distance.

Is it possible?

Buyvm offers that for a VM: https://buyvm.net/anycast-vps/.

And fly.io offers that but it's not a classic VM with SSH but a service similar to heroku: https://fly.io/

I'm affiliated with neither of these.

https://rage4.com/

If I'm reading that right... they do that... I think.

Isn‘t that exactly what googles global loadbalancer ips are doing?

Could that be done using AWS Elastic IP?

Elastic IPs are region-specific (or perhaps even zone-specific - I can’t recall offhand), so those won’t work. One could possibly wire up something with their Global Accelerator product, though.

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