ipv4 exhaustion Archives

POLL: OVH IPv4 Pricing Apocalypse! If Your Provider Begs, What Will You Say?

Sep 15, 2022

The LowEnd community was rocked today by news that OVH is substantially increasing IPv4 prices. The OVH blog has a table showing the impact for different IP block sizes, which is strange since the pricing is the same whether you're buying a single IPv4 or a /24: Old price: € 2.00 setup New price: € 1.50 monthly Wow. So if you're a small VPS shop who buys your IPs from OVH, they've just added € 1.50 a month to the cost of...

POLL: OVH IPv4 Pricing Apocalypse! If Your Provider Begs, What Will You Say?

Is the Golden Age of LowEnd VPSes Coming to a Screeching Halt?

raindog308

Jun 20, 2022

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OVH announced on June 14 that it will begin charging for IPv4 addresses. That loud screaming sound you heard was thousands of low-end hosts watching their profit margins vaporize. "Given the scarcity...

Is the Golden Age of LowEnd VPSes Coming to a Screeching Halt?

500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming! Well, Maybe. Or Maybe Not.

raindog308

Jun 02, 2022

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The idea of changing up the IPv4 protocols to free up reserved ranges is not new. Heck, I posted about it on LowEndTalk at least ten years ago and it wasn't new then. The idea is simple: when IPv4 wa...

500 Million New IPv4 Addresses Coming! Well, Maybe. Or Maybe Not.

LowEndBoxTV: Weekend Update for May 1, 2021

raindog308

May 01, 2021

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Free VPS, Cheap VPS, and Ryzen VPS, plus interviews with DirectAdmin and OnApp, plus our Industry Roundtable on ipv4 exhaustion, plus...whew, it was quite a week! This video is our weekly update of ev...