Most low-end providers will just keep using old hardware for longer.
IPv4 shortages didn’t kill it, and I don’t think this will either.
IPv4 shortages didn’t kill it, and I don’t think this will either.
But for a new provider like us, we'd have to spend more than an established player like BuyVM or RackNerd who bought most of their servers pre-AI-boom.
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539
For countries, if you meaning connecting to VPS, lot of countries have good IPv6 connectivity now. For me both ISPs I use have native v6. This will differ from person to person.
My theory: Microsoft is extremely interested in tracking you via your IPv4.
There may indeed be some tracking that MS does via IPv4, but it's not a good way to do it.
I suspect any such tracking is essentially just some cruft that snuck in (either their own or legislative) in the early 2000s, and nobody thinks it's their problem to make go away.
That said, that IPv4 is a poor way to do tracking doesn't guarantee there's no manager demanding it: any corporation eventually gets someone with no technical knowledge demanding bad solutions.
That is, if being unreachable below "presentation layer" is acceptable in the first place, but I guess the question kind of presupposes this.