[ale] Replacing shared host?

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Mon Dec 17 14:14:34 EST 2018


This is true. :)  As long as the public at large doesn't have to access
it (or your IPv6 from your ISP is reliable) then it should work.

On 2018-12-17 11:12, Leam Hall wrote:
> Might be nice to put your database instance on.  :)
> 
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:10 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, makes sense for cost but weird otherwise.  I suppose if it was for
>> some internal company service (like backups or web forms) it would work.
>>
>> On 2018-12-17 09:13, James Sumners wrote:
>>> I suspect they don't. I suspect the point is that you _only_ want IPv6
>>> requests to succeed. As such, they can offer the discount because they
>>> don't have to use one of their limited IPv4 addresses.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:09 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-12-17 09:02, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
>>>>> Let's get back to technical details, shall we?
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting that Vultr offers a discount for IPv6 only servers.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any idea why that would be?  They'd have to provide translation for
>>>> visitors with only IPv4.


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