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ah thank you this is good info. My situation is google cloud offers a free tier ipv4 only vm. To get a dual stack you have to pay for a load balancer. My site h
by andrewfromx 3y ago
ah thank you this is good info. My situation is google cloud offers a free tier ipv4 only vm. To get a dual stack you have to pay for a load balancer. My site has very little traffic so just doing a test on my site alone isn't very good. I was looking for some numbers on the internet in general. Has anyone with a lot of traffic done the above test and can say, oh yeah like 10% of people have ipv6 only?
- toast0 3y agoI'm not familiar with the free tier, but Google Cloud offers direct ipv6 to instances; you shouldn't need a load balancer. You'd need to adjust your network definition to be ipv4+ipv6 instead of ipv4 only; and probably something on your instance too (may potentially need to restart or recreate it, too). There's docs here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure-ipv6-address https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/configure... If you're serving http(s) on standard ports, ipv4 only should be ok. Maybe not ideal, but ok. There's less and less high profile sites doing that, but at least for me, www.reddit.com and www.github.com are both returning only an A record right now; As of now, an internet connection that doesn't get you to github or reddit is clearly deficient, so most consumers have some access to ipv4. ipv6 may be a little more important if you're doing stuff outside http. For users with ipv6, there's likely to be nat and other network manipulation and restriction on ipv6 vs ipv4. This can be pretty useful for say realtime communications or long mostly idle connections, where CGNAT can cause trouble.