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Wanted: Cheap very low-spec VPS in UK with IPV6
I'm looking for an absolutely minimal IPV6 enabled (not IPV6 only though, I need an IPV4) VPS in the UK to use purely as a 'jump box' to allow me to connect to all my other VPS, including the IPV6 only ones.
Bandwidth, disk and ram can all be absolutely minimal, and I'm happy to pay yearly with reputable providers.
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How about lowendspirit.com ?
I need the IPV6 enabled box to connect to Lowendspirit in the first place.
What is wrong with simply getting yourself an IPv6 tunnel? http://tunnelbroker.net/
If your ipv6 only are LES then you could just change the SSH port to one of your ipv4 ports to connect through ipv4
It looked like too much aggro to set up for multiple locations.
I want to secure my VPS by only allowing SSH connections from the IP of the jump box.
Alternatively you could setup a vpn to give you a static ip at home
Or use a key instead of using passwords
@Jack has a 256MB KVM in Maidenhead for £2.2 a month, with IPv6.
http://dotvps.co
This is the cheapest I ever found in UK.
I do appreciate the suggestions, but they're not viable. I use lots of different vpns from multiple machines as part of my daily routine, and I frequently change the VPN ip's too, meaning that it would be a lot of work up to keep all of my boxes updated with those IPs. What I'm asking for is the most straight-forward solution, IMO.
You don't need to setup IPv6 tunnels to multiple locations, just once to your "jump box". he.net only gives 5 tunnels/person.
httpzoom.com has openvz 64MB of RAM for 8 pounds/year. I have one of their 128MB openvz boxes and it's extremely reliable. Their network is fast, disk I/O is sluggish, but I'm using it as a proxy server which works great.
I use a tunnelbroker IPv6 tunnel on it, which requires using "tb"
http://code.google.com/p/tb-tun/ It was a pain to setup, but it only has to be done once.
lowendspirit.com sounds like the perfect match, IPv4 (20 TCP+UDP ports on a shared external IP) and native IPv6 only €3.00 p/year.
You could go with HTTPZoom. They provide IPv6 on request.
@Jack DotVPS
Can throw you a custom deal, your package, your price, our service
"You could go with HTTPZoom. They provide IPv6 on request."
Do you know if they do rDNS for IPv6?
Lowendspirit.com cheapest and best you can get.
I know reading is hard, but here you don't even need to read the whole thread, just messages #2 and #3
Why?
As Anthony said you get "20 TCP+UDP ports on a shared external IP", so you set one of those ports to be your SSH port. Then connect to LES over IPv4, then you can use LES as a 4to6 tunnel and connect to all your other VPSes or use it the regular IPv4 way, either way I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Honestly, I don't see much benefit to setting it up this way. I would probably just change the SSH port, disable Root login and use keys if I was really paranoid. If you were to set it up this way any of the following can happen:
And I still don't see any benefit over simply getting IPv6 connectivity on all your boxes (which is 'the' most straightforward way to work with a LES VPS).
Yes, that would be the most straight forward and secure way to do something like this, but some people still buy VPSes without native v6. God knows why..