New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Comments
So we're back to the old days of shell-accounts? Not that I dislike those times. But I expect to have a bit more freedom on a VPS with how I manage my ports.
That customer can have :9001, that other customer can have :4503, that customer has been a good boy he can have :101, but that customers been a bad boy, he should have :1337
I actually like the idea of having a NATed VPS, as the only things i usually run are gameservers and Teamspeak servers which can easily use arbitrary ports
This is true, but it might not always be straightforward to use different ports when connecting to a game server. The game browser might not have support, or it does not support the ip:port notation properly.
@Jacob
Really, we have never had any issues getting IPs from them.
Besides that, I guess it won't work with HTTP/HTTPS sessions.
What we might start seeing is reverse proxies that cache for people, kinda like localized cachefly's
Francisco
Didn't we have that in the 90ies with squid and the 56k dialup-lines?
I have no idea, I didn't live in the dial-up days for very long :P By the time I got the 'net at my house, @home was just starting up so I was able to get that.
I'll be honest, I fully expect that to start happening if things start tightening.
Any other LEB's that use burstnet having this issue? or likely just the super-LEB market?
Francisco
It sounds like they're trying to enforce SSL like requirements to VPS allocations o_O
Francisco
I think ISPs should get on their way to enabling IPv6 throughout the network that way people like myself don't have to use tunnelbroker nor use NAT.
Really getting old.
Yes, I setup squid in the 90's at a remote pop when 400 dialup lines were flooding a T1 pretty bad, reduced the bandwidth for the location to 1.2mbit which was great since it was Frame-Relay.
I wonder how the caching will work with all those web 2.0 social networks. I did use squid on my local network to reduce traffic which was quite expensive in the 90ies. But we had more static pages at that time. Now nearly every site I visit gets personalized. Will caching be still so effective?
I don't think they'll be using it to cache, just as a ghetto 'virtual hosts' setup.
Francisco
@nabo There's still a lot of "caching" going on with all major CDNs having edges located directly at ISPs. Thats especially the case for Youtube videos.
Is there anyone here remembering the world without the 'net'? :-D
Some of us actually do. Same as terrible high phone bill years later (dial-up line).
so from buying 1.2.3.4-1.2.3.9 with 65535 ports
to 1.2.3.4:800-1.2.3.4:899 with 100 ipv6 to match them
anyone happy with such a scenario ?
I think IPv6 is inevitable, I frankly fail to see how IPv4 lasted so long.
Personally, I dont host many sites on VPS and I use virtual domains whenever possible, it is convenient to have LEB on IPv4, but I fear it is not sustainable.
I can do with ports for v4 AND full v6, but usually I wont consider just one of the two.
M