On 2015-01-20 22:47, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> On 20 January 2015 at 18:12, Steve Shockley <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > On 1/19/2015 9:06 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>
> >> So please stop by and give us your upvotes.
> >
> >
> > So, is this advertising or SEO?
>
> DigitalOcean is a shady provider with a lack of documentation, who
> doesn't even give you IPv6 address space across their fleet, or in
> those few locations they do, they do it in violation of all known RFCs
> and the best practices -- I've heard a rumour that they only give out
> 16 IPv6 addresses. Why a rumour? Because, as already mentioned, they
> completely lack the documentation!
>
For those interested, I can confirm this (copy-paste from their dev console):
Public IPv6 Network
Public IPv6 Address: 2a03:b0c0:1:d0::190:c001/64
Public IPv6 Gateway: 2a03:b0c0:1:d0::1
Configurable address range: 2a03:b0c0:1:d0::190:c000 -
2a03:b0c0:1:d0::190:c00f
> I don't know why you would want to run OpenBSD on it. If you're just
> in it for the "OpenBSD" part, just go with real hardware like
> online.net -- they start at 5,99 EUR/mo, there's not much reason to
> have to rent a virtual server if dedi is that cheap.
>
> Lots of other dedi options at http://lowendcore.com/.
>
> With dedi prices that low, virtual hosting for OpenBSD is kinda dead, IMHO.
>
DO give you 100USD free if you're a student/teacher. At 5USD a month, that's
20months free. Hard to beat that, regrettably.
--
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
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