[RndTbl] Warning: OVH VPS 2016 line missing feature

[Adam Thompson]

Yeah, but can I do the OpenBSD installer trick with a DigitalOcean 
droplet like I can with an OVH VPS?  (Looks like it's a definite maybe.  
Hmm.  Pricing slightly higher, install looks to be a royal PITA, but if 
it works...)
-Adam


On 2016-04-09 21:49, Theodore Baschak wrote:
> They definitely have IPv6 in Toronto, my nagios instance in toronto is 
> IPv6 enabled.
> Most of the regions have IPv6 now AFAIK, even older regions like SFO1.
>
> Theodore Baschak
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>> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:48 PM, Wyatt Zacharias <wyatt at magitech.ca 
>> <mailto:wyatt at magitech.ca>> wrote:
>>
>> Alternatively, Digital Ocean's SSD backed vps's have ipv6 support in 
>> several but not all of their data centers, and that's also only 
>> 4.99/month (except USD). Off the top of my head I can't remember if 
>> they were offering ipv6 in their new Toronto data center, but that 
>> might be of interest to some people.
>>
>> --
>> Wyatt Zacharias (mobile)
>>
>> On 9 Apr 2016 7:34 p.m., "Adam Thompson" <athompso at athompso.net 
>> <mailto:athompso at athompso.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     OVH has a new line of SSD-backed KVM-hosted VPS servers starting
>>     at C$4.99/month, with good performance, decent availability,
>>     pretty much an all-round good deal.
>>
>>     Except for one little thing... No IPv6 support.  At all.
>>
>>     According to the tech support rep I just spoke to, it's because
>>     the new 2016 lineup runs on OpenStack. I'm a little unclear on
>>     how this makes it "impossible" to provide IPv6 functionality, but
>>     that's their claim.
>>
>>     It's 2016: new IPv4 addresses are no longer available.  IPv6 is
>>     supported by all major content providers (except Twitter, I
>>     think)- but OVH doesn't consider this important, apparently.
>>
>>     FYI: their SoYouStart and OVH Dedicated Server lines still
>>     provide IPv6 service; it's only the new 2016 VPS system that
>>     doesn't. Ironically, the older-generation (2014) system *did*
>>     support IPv6, but I can't order that any more.
>>
>>     Grrr.
>>
>>     -Adam
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