An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by amybe » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 8:40 AM UTC

An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
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Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by louwrentius » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:22 AM UTC

My opinion: IPv6 is used by nobody, nobody cares about IPv6 except for us tech nerds and in five years it will still be nowhere.

But still, nice if you want to try it out and test with it.

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by notimetorelax » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:25 AM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #2

My opinion: IPv6 is used by nobody, nobody cares about IPv6 except for us tech nerds and in five years it will still be nowhere. But still, nice if you want to try it out and test with it.

I wonder who else but tech nerds should be interested in IPv6?

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by eksith » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:28 AM UTC

One of the big reasons we didn't implement IPv6 on our domain servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_brokenness_and_DNS_whitel...

Alternative: http://www.opendns.com/technology/ipv6/

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by devonbarrett » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:30 AM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #2

My opinion: IPv6 is used by nobody, nobody cares about IPv6 except for us tech nerds and in five years it will still be nowhere. But still, nice if you want to try it out and test with it.

In same way, no one except 'us tech nerds' care about IPv4. Why would anyone who does not have to work with it, or have an interest in tech, care about protocols?

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by growse » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:34 AM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #2

My opinion: IPv6 is used by nobody, nobody cares about IPv6 except for us tech nerds and in five years it will still be nowhere. But still, nice if you want to try it out and test with it.

Nobody, except for between 2 and 2.5% of Google's users (http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html).

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by dagw » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:35 AM UTC

Sounds like an interesting solution for back end servers and compute clusters. Your front end or control server has IPv4 to talk to the world, but all your database and back end compute servers that only talk to the front end server can be IPv6 servers to save money.

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by AndrewDucker » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:49 AM UTC

eksith wrote: post #4

One of the big reasons we didn't implement IPv6 on our domain servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_brokenness_and_DNS_whitel... Alternative: http://www.opendns.com/technology/ipv6/

So you didn't implement because of a problem that affects 0.03% of people worldwide?

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by eksith » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:50 AM UTC

AndrewDucker wrote: post #8

eksith wrote: post #4

One of the big reasons we didn't implement IPv6 on our domain servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_brokenness_and_DNS_whitel... Alternative: http://www.opendns.com/technology/ipv6/

So you didn't implement because of a problem that affects 0.03% of people worldwide?

At the time, 90% of our clients constituted that 0.03%. We're no longer in the specialty networking/server scope.

Re: An IPv6-only VPS that costs less

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Post by AndrewDucker » Fri, Nov 29, 2013, 9:53 AM UTC

growse wrote: post #6

louwrentius wrote: post #2

My opinion: IPv6 is used by nobody, nobody cares about IPv6 except for us tech nerds and in five years it will still be nowhere. But still, nice if you want to try it out and test with it.

Nobody, except for between 2 and 2.5% of Google's users ( http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html ).

And doubling every year:

January 2011: 0.24%

January 2012: 0.41%

January 2013: 1.07%

Not-quite January 2014: 2.54%

Which means that it will be ubiquitous within 5 years, if it carries on this trend.