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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by usui on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:13AM (#47789695)
Outside of hobbyist niche uses, sites won't start being hosted IPv6-only. The financialization of IPv4 addresses will simply get worse and be even more pay-to-play than it is now. Amazon raises the price of IPv4 and everyone goes along as a cost of doing business.
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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by elsjaako on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:15AM (#47790151)
If you have a big site and want as broad an access as possible I agree.

But I wouldn't be surpised if we start seeing self-hosted minecraft or factorio servers with ipv6 only.

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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by zokier on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:31AM (#47789828)
My prediction is that sites will be half-IPv6 only; backends will be IPv6 and IPv4 traffic will get proxied to IPv6 by CDNs / edge LBs. I think CloudFront for example supports that scenario, avoiding IPv4 costs (in theory).
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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by pheggs on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:00AM (#47790045)
that may be true, but not being able to access hobbyist sites still feels like "being locked out" of something. My ISP provides /48 IPv6 addresses for free, and I already run a couple sites only on IPv6 - because an IPv4 would cost 20 bucks a month - it's not important enough to me personally to pay that.
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Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time by neojima on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:58AM (#47795299)
Yeah, hobbyist niche sites like these:

https://clintonwhitehouse1.archives.gov/

https://clintonwhitehouse2.archives.gov/

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