Hi mgcarley, are you planning to launch it anywhere in NCR region. I am planning to shift back to NCR soon and might relocate as per the availability of the service. Any areas within NCR if not Delhi planned during the initial launch in Diwali. ?
NCR was going to be included in the initial launch at Diwali, but it has too many problems (logistics), so it will be launched in stages after Diwali.
One more question. Will you provide static IP or dynamic IP? Most webmasters would opt for Dynamic IPs I suppose rather than a static one. Beam provides static IPs I heard and will Hayai also provide static or dynamic IPs instead. Or would there be an option to choose between static and dynamic.
We are providing IPv6 IP addresses only - they could be static or dynamic depending on the plan. Residential customers are most likely to get dynamic IPs,
Business customers are most likely to get static IPs.
We are not buying more than a couple thousand IPv4 addresses so we won't be dishing those out to customers except in exceptional circumstances where they're absolutely needed.
Hardly any webmaster would host their website on their own computer with the internet connections and reliability in India. They would rather host in a host in US or Europe where their websites would be hosted in datacenters with proper backup etc. So, static IP is hardly used by webmasters. The reason of Dynamic IP is due to IP limits or being banned sometimes. For example, if you need to bulk test pagerank of many websites for example your competitors then your IP might face a temporary limit at
Google. SEO especially needs Dynamic IP as the IP needs to be changed often if there is temporary block etc. at a service. In file hosts too, sometimes when downloading files changing IP would end the wait time if there is a long wait time. So, a dynamic IP is always helpful compared to a static one.
Typically hosting is prohibited by the T&C of most ISPs on a residential connection anyway. As far as we're concerned, it's probably OK for personal use (like your blog or something), but not for commercial use (like if you plan to sell webspace).
For freelance web developers it would be OK for the purpose of testing/demonstration so that the client can see it by visiting somesubdomain.no-ip.org or whatever, although if you're going to visit the client for the purpose of demonstration, localhost is much better. You couldn't point an AAAA record of some permanent domain to your IP address and expect it to work for very long.
As for Google's temporary limits and downloading from those websites which keep track of your IP address (link-removed etc) then a simple IP release/renew would likely fix any problem there.