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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by shiftpgdn on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:47PM (#13074009)
IPv4 allocation limits are still mostly a scare tactic to get people onto v6. I know dozens of people from my webhosting days with /12 and /16 allotments doing nothing that they pay peanuts for. This isn't a unique scenario.
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by AdamN on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:35PM (#13074455)
That's not relevant, if I have 10 cars and you need a car ... then all that matters to you is that you need a car, not that I have 10 cars sitting there doing nothing. People sitting on IPv4 addresses don't care but new entrants cannot get new IPv4 addresses since they're all allocated.
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by Whitestrake on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @06:45PM (#13075749)
> This isn't a unique scenario.

And this is exactly why we're running out of publically available IPv4 addresses.

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