[RndTbl] Warning: OVH VPS 2016 line missing feature

[Theodore Baschak]

Ya i'm not sure if the digitalocean FreeBSD support would work for your needs or not.... It might but it sounds like a PITA for sure.

Theo



> On Apr 9, 2016, at 10:42 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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