There are quite a few VPS services out there that offer IPv6 only.
With those if you want to make anything on the services accessible via IPv4 you need to do it via another route, such as a VPN (or even just a port forward) to/from somewhere where you have an address to spare or for websites perhaps somewhere where you run nginx as a reverse proxy. In fact some infrastructure-as-a-service companies like CloudFlair offer this as a service: your users talk to them via IPv4 or IPv6 but they always talk to you via IPv6.
Some offer IPv6 with "IPv4 NAT" which allows you to call out via IPv4 as normal and may include calling in but not on standard ports (i.e. not 80 for HTTP, 22 for SSH, and so forth).
It would have to be SNI for SSL unless they had an absolute shed load of IPv4 addresses space available, though if they are charging for the service that would increase the chance of getting a dedicated IPv4 upon which you have sole use of port 443.
I would definitely offer native, unrestricted ipv6 access from day one if I was going to roll out restricted ipv4 connectivity. Not sure why they did not deploy it, but it seems like you can get ipv6 from a lot of other low-end, cheap providers.
Good news we've got IPv6 support coming by the end of tomorrow (hopefully). All existing clients will get an IPv6 address and all new clients will obviously get one.
Expensive from the DC. We're introducing it ASAP. Currently we can provide clients with a tunnelled IPv6 address to an Amsterdam POP. This still offers good speeds and adds little latency. If you desire this then please submit a ticket and we can set it up.
Sounds similar to http://lowendspirit.com/ where you get a a port range on an IPv4 address, and x amount of dedicated IPv6 addresses.
Super cheap, great for a private VPN or two.
We're offering a similar service, spoke to the owner of LES yesterday who is quite [happy][0] with us offering the community a similar service since it's not really profitable but more as an effort to help the community and offer something cool.
Interesting service. I've seen other places doing the same, and I really should brush up on my IPv6 knowledge..
As a side-note; I'm getting mixed-content warnings when accessing your website. You have the PureCSS framework included with a http link, instead of https. yui.yahooapis.com doesn't support https, so you need to host it yourself to get rid of this warning. You also have a picture hosted on imgur.com, which does support https.
Maybe consider updating your links to not include http/https and just use :// instead?
You could probably also save some bandwidth, because you're only displaying the top 400 pixels of that background image. There's no need to load the entire thing.
May I offer a free piece of advice? Hire a proofreader. There are so many grammar mistakes, like run-ons and sentence fragments, that it's a little hard to follow. It looks amateurish, and I think you've worked too hard to make people question your professionalism?
Thanks for the advice, I'll get someone to proofread it however at this price I can assure you that we have to dedicate the majority of our budget to technicalities.
There's no support for a reason. These are very low cost and therefore we're not willing to commit to providing support. We will help when we have time and where we can and I'd be happy to either setup IPv6 or reverse proxy a domain for a client if and when I have time. Anyway tickets can be submitted here: https://definedcodehosting.com/client/submitticket.php?step=...
There is some arbitrary length limit on root passwords that isn't disclosed anywhere (or reported if you exceed it.) I had to truncate my password several times to get it to actually work.
We're introducing it ASAP. Currently we can provide clients with a tunnelled IPv6 address to an Amsterdam POP. This still offers good speeds and adds little latency. If you desire this then please submit a ticket and we can set it up.
Also if anyone is interested in how this is technically setup then I wrote an [article][0]
Very cool - I could see this as a very useful tool to have for personal git repos, email, and as a proxy for getting around firewalls / testing sites from another country (geoIP stuff).
How much free space is left on each VPS with the operating system installed?
We're currently offering 32bit and 64bit varieties of the following: CentOS 6, Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04. If there is a custom template you desire we can probably provide it, just PM us or drop a ticket.
I would think about adding a virtual host-based proxy. That way users could provide you with their domain(s), and you could forward traffic on port 80/443 for that host to the appropriate vm.
They might sell them for that but when you're selling to a "low end" market at £4/year $10/address is quite expensive. Especially when we don't need a range bigger than a /27.
I agree there are still IPv4 addresses about but this teaches people that they are running out and we should look for other solutions.
At $10/IP, I'd say "shortage" is pretty well defensible.
We'll never run out of IPv4 addresses. We'll just reach a point where each one has a mortgage-sized pricetag. (Well, we would if we were stuck with IPv4, anyway.)
How about non-exit nodes. I'm actually working on an app (Bitcoin-related) that receives commands from satellite-connected devices (very low bandwidth) and then relays those over the Tor network to a processing server hosted by the user. So this would require a Tor node on the server to get the satellite request and forward it over Tor.
Would this be an acceptable use? Bandwidth requirements would be extremely low (I would say less than 100MB/month in 99% of the cases).
Unfortunately OpenVZ virtualisation only supports Linux OSs because they share the same kernel. Since *BSD is not Linux based they can't be installed. Sorry about this!
Statically-rendered websites (Jekyll, Blosxom, etc.) would work fine.
Though having a weird port number on a blog URL would probably cause me to think twice before clicking on it, at least from a bare-metal Windows machine; it makes me think "botnet dropper".
I'm confused. £4 ($6.83) for a 64mb RAM, 3GB VM vs. $5 (£2.93) 512mb RAM, 20GB SSD from DigitalOcean I'm seeing zero advantage and a whole lot of disadvatage for my extra $1.83. Honestly, you can colo a Raspberry Pi and have a better machine for cheaper.
We offer it for £4/year not month. SO significantly cheaper.
A Raspberry Pi would not provide better performance than the E3 we have.
Anyway an idea: it's fun. Trying to run a whole LAMP stack or a RoR stack on 64MB RAM is more fun than not using all your resources. Also we're cheap and people like that. We might not always beat them in performance but we don't break the bank either.
With those if you want to make anything on the services accessible via IPv4 you need to do it via another route, such as a VPN (or even just a port forward) to/from somewhere where you have an address to spare or for websites perhaps somewhere where you run nginx as a reverse proxy. In fact some infrastructure-as-a-service companies like CloudFlair offer this as a service: your users talk to them via IPv4 or IPv6 but they always talk to you via IPv6.
Some offer IPv6 with "IPv4 NAT" which allows you to call out via IPv4 as normal and may include calling in but not on standard ports (i.e. not 80 for HTTP, 22 for SSH, and so forth).