Hi, I may be looking to acquire an additional IP address or two for SSL or rate-limited APIs... assuming I can manage to route outgoing traffic through a particular address. Trouble is, I'm a tinkerer and have no idea if/when I'd get around to actually doing something with it. Does anybody get in trouble if I provide justifcation and don't follow it through?

Alternatively you could just wait until you REALLY need them to buy them. They don't take long to come though. (Linode support, as you probably know, is pretty fast).

Last time I asked for an IP address linode asked me to have my ssl certs in place in 14 days (I think, maybe it was 7) anyway I assume they check to see if anything is using ssl on your ip after that time and if it's not they will ask you to hurry along.

Best thing to do is what GLaDOSDan said, it'll take 5 minutes for you to get a second ip.

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Hi.

I myself, have not had the experience of asking for another IP, since I would just purchase multiple nodes with IPs on them as it is probably.
But I do advise doing what you were suggested to do, in any case.
Don't purchase them and do nothing with them..
That's the best thing to do I think.

If I can help out with anything else, let me know.

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It's 14 days

No problem, two weeks is long enough. I have another question, is anonymity from IP grouping domain records a technically justifiable reason?

You'll have to ask support for that, I've only ever requested for SSL.

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I thought I was, I never encountered another forum where Pre-sales questions aren't actively addressed by the staff.

Anyway, I emailed and the answer is unsurprisingly "no". I suppose the obvious solution is to flip login/registration over to SSL and dodge grouping as a bonus.

I was under the impression that you can still get 2 IP addresses per Linode with no problems, no justification, and it is just more than 2 per that needs a good reason.
A while back I added one with no problems, did my testing, then dropped it after a few days. Got my $.75 refund applied to my next bill .

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No, this is not a valid justification.

aww damn I was just about to issue a support ticket for that. Just wanted to keep some of my sites private from others

But following up on what bryantrv.. I thought we were allowed to have 2 IP address per Linode without any problems... but I just tried to add a second one and I was told to issue a support ticket :-/

how is a separate IP going to keep your sites private?

It's possible to list other domains that share the IP address of a chosen site. If the list of sites sharing an address is small then it's easy to connect them and there are situations where it's not appropriate for that to happen.

this happens with shared hosting all the time, like hundreds of domains on the same IP.