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Show HN: Tiny VPSs without exhausting IPv4 addresses

95 pointsby vznatvpsalmost 11 years ago

23 comments

dspillettalmost 11 years ago
There are quite a few VPS services out there that offer IPv6 only.<p>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&#x2F;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.<p>Some offer IPv6 with &quot;IPv4 NAT&quot; 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).
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simon_vetteralmost 11 years ago
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.
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graystevensalmost 11 years ago
Sounds similar to <a href="http://lowendspirit.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lowendspirit.com&#x2F;</a> 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.
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throwaway-6836almost 11 years ago
Coupon code INTROLEBT for £2&#x2F;year Mini 64 and £4&#x2F;year Mini 128.<p>You can use CloudFlare as a reverse proxy for &quot;native&quot; IPv4 and IPv6.
iamtewalmost 11 years ago
Interesting service. I&#x27;ve seen other places doing the same, and I really should brush up on my IPv6 knowledge..<p>As a side-note; I&#x27;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&#x27;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.<p>Maybe consider updating your links to not include http&#x2F;https and just use :&#x2F;&#x2F; instead?
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kstrauseralmost 11 years ago
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&#x27;s a little hard to follow. It looks amateurish, and I think you&#x27;ve worked too hard to make people question your professionalism?
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bryanlarsenalmost 11 years ago
How about putting HAProxy or nginx in front of those servers to make port 80 available?
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gerglesalmost 11 years ago
There is some arbitrary length limit on root passwords that isn&#x27;t disclosed anywhere (or reported if you exceed it.) I had to truncate my password several times to get it to actually work.
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therealidiotalmost 11 years ago
Seems like a cool idea, what are the chances of getting dedicated IPv6?
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bnejadalmost 11 years ago
Cool service. Not that it matters much but on your linked page the &quot;Unmanaged&quot; and RAM amount are in different row positions for each Mini
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deckiedanalmost 11 years ago
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 &#x2F; testing sites from another country (geoIP stuff).<p>How much free space is left on each VPS with the operating system installed?
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cwyersalmost 11 years ago
When you say &quot;Choice of Linux OS,&quot; what are you currently offering?
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sfengalmost 11 years ago
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&#x2F;443 for that host to the appropriate vm.
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edwintorokalmost 11 years ago
Any plans to support Xen? Then one could run Mirage unikernels (<a href="http://openmirage.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openmirage.org&#x2F;</a>) ...
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bluedevil2kalmost 11 years ago
The shortage of IPv4 addresses is somewhat of a misnomer - there are a few sites selling huge ranges of them for about $10&#x2F;address
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ForHackernewsalmost 11 years ago
What are you policies around running Tor nodes?
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yuropaalmost 11 years ago
Any chance of seeing OpenBSD on this? It seems like you&#x27;ve mentioned doing custom templates if requested.
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bluedinoalmost 11 years ago
64MB? 128MB? What applications are there for that little RAM except maybe an IRC shell?
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axyjoalmost 11 years ago
Cool idea. Have you considered submitting it to lowendbox.com?
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ridgewellalmost 11 years ago
I can&#x27;t tell if this is just shameless advertising.<p>Just for the record, LowEndSpirit.com has done the same thing well before this was launched.
heyalexejalmost 11 years ago
Any chance of accepting Bitcoin?
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fotobluralmost 11 years ago
&quot;This means that when you host a website you will have to append a port to the end&quot;<p>No thanks.
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xanderstrikealmost 11 years ago
I&#x27;m confused. £4 ($6.83) for a 64mb RAM, 3GB VM vs. $5 (£2.93) 512mb RAM, 20GB SSD from DigitalOcean I&#x27;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.<p>DigitalOcean even has ipv6 now. What&#x27;s the point?
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