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If you are lucky, your provider allows bridge mode. In many cases, though, they would not allow it and insist to have the router activated. When I was in Bucharest on an old connection from Telekom I had to replace their router with a media converter and fake the mac to be able to tunnel my IPv6.
Maybe stupid and desperate question but: Can somebody confirm that this is valid generally for all OVH additional IPv4s and affecting too SYS and OVH VPSes line, not only OVH dedicated servers? Thanks
Seems that now mr. Klaba realized than can pretty monetize his IP mega-farm and biggest OVH advantage imo, will be soon gone (i do not understand how his costs of Ips are raised when his company own all these milions of Ips and does not rent them)
I also fed tens of OVH vpses with addit ips, so now i can cancel them because i will not pay for vps 3.50 and another 24/m for addit ips. Another my bad past decision to put money into OVH.
It will affect additional/failover IPs regardless of the service.
vps re-sellers are completely fucked (oh, so easy for them now to ask their customers for an additional 1.5 / m for services with the former price of $ 1-3 per month ... a nice insidious dagger to the back from OVH for them
Only if you sell VPS on OVH with no profit margin. Anyone who uses OVH for business purpose like this should know prices at OVH will steadily increase. Just look at the Game line servers. Remember when they used to be like $79/m? Now they're like $135-$180/m. IP cost isn't a concern, the increasing of pricing for servers with no real flexibility at OVH is the real concern.
Hmm maybe this will result in more NAT VPS. There's rarely a need for a dedicated IP anyway
NAT and borked IPv6, the real deal.
More like NAT and no IPv6, since boomer is too lazy to learn it.
At least you have one stack still running, redundancy.
He used to have functioning IPv6 at start, although only a /128 was assigned per server. Later "IPv6 broke network config", disabled it and never cared about it anymore.
Yes. DC did IPv6 renumbering and I had no way to change them automatically in virtualizor
I have my own /36 block since a few months ago. It won’t really happen again. Voxility and KVM (probably NAT because I run out of IPv4 as soon as I get a block.. and I can’t get the a /17 that would be enough for 24 months at current growth) will come soon. Things are moving along and we finally got our own ASN.
I'm disappointed, totally switched to sys for the perpetual ip prices to save money but just my luck
Maybe if they charge for IPs, OVH can actually make a profit...?
wait how didn't they bankrupt yet?
As long you have people giving money to you, you ain't bankrupt despite running on loss.
But the numbers are billions or millions? Like Total Revenue 655,226 million?
I dont understand shit
OVH make heavy use of French government funding, amongst other things. They've been focused on growth for a long time, but to me it seems like now is when they're pivoting for a profit.
Makes sense given the recent IPO.
It's not that they don't right? It's perhaps that it's too low of a price? Which brings me to another question, finding a provider where one can outright buy an ip would be nice - might even be a good business plan since to keep your bought ip, you keep the service.
DataPacket does it - I believe it's $50-$60 to outright buy an IP from them
Amazon would blow your mind.
... my local ISP is still buying V4 only equipment. And they are one of the most popular in the country (22% market share)
I'm sure they have an expected write off period of 10 years or more.
Don't expect v6 only to reach all but select demographics any time soon.
My thoughts exactly, this will do it. It might also reduce their low value customer count at a time when power is higher than predicted.
I don't think monetizing your advantage on the existing userbase is the go-to mean of increasing your profit, especially when there's Hetzner around.
They got over it*.
Not surprising for Australia though :P
Makes sense. $1.60/month per IP, with 4M IP's on their ASN, would put them positive for the year, or very close to it.
Anyone here doing their own BGP has seen IPV6 outages that last hours/days and their upstream not really care. If it was V4 though it would be all hands on deck, the worlds coming to an end.
Again, we're a big supporter of IPV6 services and short of SLAAC assignments, we're pretty close to feature complete. That said, V4's here for the rest of our lives.
Francisco
Coincidentally, came across this announcement from Hetzner whilst perusing some old email…
Amazon makes money and AWS is their most profitable business unit.
If only IPv6 didn't suck so much...
The solution was so easy... Reallocate the IPv4 not in use and reserved.
Instead commercial interests took over and invented v6 to push forward a hardware upgrade super cycle.
@jbiloh true
Worldwide lawsuit. Even ipv4 is allocated unfairly just like everything in the world, private property is protected by law. This is the "root" of the current society.
Economically speaking, ipv6 network construction also includes internal network construction for railroads, banks and the military, and regardless of which network transformation, it requires huge costs, very huge even for a country.
The current price of ip only makes us LETer feel bad, which, probably no one cares. For IPv6 to really work, the ipv4 shortage needs to be so high that it hurts most country's economy. And for the transformation, it cost that the country needs to save money in other areas, maybe education, maybe medical, maybe higher tax.