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I'm trying to find a VPS provider that can do IPv6 and multiple IPv4. Digital Ocean really surprised me in having no IPv6 offering. What really surprised me i

I'm trying to find a VPS provider that can do IPv6 and multiple IPv4. Digital Ocean really surprised me in having no IPv6 offering. What really surprised me is that you can't get IPv6 on Amazon's EC2. You can get a v6 address for a load balancer, but that's surely not the same thing. Linode does actually almost fit the bill, except that they require manual authorization for an additional IPv4 addresses. So there's no way to script deployment of such a system. I have gone through about 10 VPS providers and the message is clear: IPv4 is fast running out. So it's especially frustrating when we can't even get v6 addresses yet. (To pre-empt, no, it's not ssl web hosting in which I require an extra address.)

anonova 13y ago
Maybe check out 6sync (http://6sync.com/ http://6sync.com/)? They are both ipv4 and ipv6 capable.
scott_karana 13y ago
I've used Ramnode to good effect, so far. You get 16 IPv6 addresses by default, without even having to ask for 'em.
- xxpor 13y ago
  16 addresses? Or 16 /64's?
  - scott_karana 13y ago
    16 addresses total. I suspect they've got loads of addresses available if you ask.
eli 13y ago
Dumb question: what do you use IPv6 for? What am I missing by not having it?
- api 13y ago
  Unfortunately not much yet, but you're helping make way for the future. I say unfortunately because IPv4's limitations are going to hurt more and more as the Internet gets more hosts online.
  - eli 13y ago
    Sure, I get that. And I agree that the lack of IPv6 makes me a teensy bit nervous about how well DO is planning for the future... but seems like a weird reason to completely disqualify an otherwise acceptable provider
    - api 13y ago
      I'm sure they'll get it eventually, but it is annoying.
devicenull 13y ago
It's because it's hard to do right, and securely. With IPv4, it's been around so long that all the secure issues are well understood, and software just expects it to be there. IPv6 has a bunch of possible security issues, and breaks in all sorts of unknown ways. It's not impossible to do, but it's a lot harder then just installing some software. As an example, libvirt comes with all sorts of network filters that will prevent IPv4 guests from doing all sorts of bad things (IP spoofing, ARP poisoning, etc). In contrast, it comes with exactly zero similar filters for IPv6. You need to explicitly ask for this from providers. While you might not get it right away, having the demand there is the only thing that's going to encourage companies to spend time on it.
stevekemp 13y ago
Bytemark are a well-known UK hosting company, and they have their own cloudy/scalable setup at http://bigv.io/ http://bigv.io/ Their legacy virtual machines, dedicated hosts, and the new cloud stuff all comes with native IPv6. Good company, smart people. (Disclaimer I used to work for them.)

anonova 13y ago

Maybe check out 6sync (http://6sync.com/ http://6sync.com/)? They are both ipv4 and ipv6 capable.

scott_karana 13y ago

I've used Ramnode to good effect, so far. You get 16 IPv6 addresses by default, without even having to ask for 'em.

xxpor 13y ago
16 addresses? Or 16 /64's?
- scott_karana 13y ago
  16 addresses total. I suspect they've got loads of addresses available if you ask.

eli 13y ago

Dumb question: what do you use IPv6 for? What am I missing by not having it?

api 13y ago
Unfortunately not much yet, but you're helping make way for the future. I say unfortunately because IPv4's limitations are going to hurt more and more as the Internet gets more hosts online.
- eli 13y ago
  Sure, I get that. And I agree that the lack of IPv6 makes me a teensy bit nervous about how well DO is planning for the future... but seems like a weird reason to completely disqualify an otherwise acceptable provider
  - api 13y ago
    I'm sure they'll get it eventually, but it is annoying.

devicenull 13y ago

It's because it's hard to do right, and securely. With IPv4, it's been around so long that all the secure issues are well understood, and software just expects it to be there. IPv6 has a bunch of possible security issues, and breaks in all sorts of unknown ways. It's not impossible to do, but it's a lot harder then just installing some software. As an example, libvirt comes with all sorts of network filters that will prevent IPv4 guests from doing all sorts of bad things (IP spoofing, ARP poisoning, etc). In contrast, it comes with exactly zero similar filters for IPv6. You need to explicitly ask for this from providers. While you might not get it right away, having the demand there is the only thing that's going to encourage companies to spend time on it.

stevekemp 13y ago

Bytemark are a well-known UK hosting company, and they have their own cloudy/scalable setup at http://bigv.io/ http://bigv.io/ Their legacy virtual machines, dedicated hosts, and the new cloud stuff all comes with native IPv6. Good company, smart people. (Disclaimer I used to work for them.)