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IPv6-only Hosting Won't Make Sense For Years

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-will-it dept.

rawagajah writes "World IPv6 Day this Wednesday will shake out any bugs for websites running on IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel. However, cloud server provider ElasticHosts points out that IPv6-only websites are still a long way off — they only make sense after access is overwhelmingly IPv6 capable. In the meantime, the market in IPv4 space will presumably only grow, benefiting the IPv4 hogs..."

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  1. Re:Right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why are developers always so shortsited?

    640kb is enough for anyone...

    oh my code will never be around in 2038 so lets use a 32 bit integer to store number of seconds since 1970...

    ipv4 ought to have enough addresses...