Can anyone recommend affordable hosting providers for WordPress that currently provide IPv6 addresses?
As I’ve written about before, I’m working on moving all my sites from TypePad over to WordPress and am currently evaluating several hosting providers. One new criteria I added to my list recently is this:
I would like my blogs to be available over IPv6.
Why? Simple. I tend to write across my various blogs on “emerging technology” issues. Much of the audience for my writing are the “early adopters” who are working with new technology, new toys… and generally working on the bleeding edge of communication.
As some of those folks (myself included) either move their networks to IPv6 or at least experiment with IPv6, I would like my sites to be natively accessible over IPv6 like many other sites are now available including Google, CNN, Facebook and more. Call me silly, but when I’m doing IPv6 testing, I’d like to be able to get to my own sites without going through a IPv6-to-IPv4 converter.
I also want to do this move once, because it’s going to be a big enough pain-in-the-neck as it is, between the initial migration from TypePad and then pointing all the domains over, mapping them, etc.
I’m currently testing out Bluehost and in talking to their support team, they are looking to have some IPv6 options available next year… but I: 1) don’t want to wait; and 2) want to be sure IPv6 addresses will be available. A2 Hosting offers IPv6 addresses, but only for their more expensive dedicated hosting offerings. I’m looking for someone who can provide more of a web hosting or Virtual Private Server (VPS) offering with IPv6.
SOLUTION?
SixXS offers a great list of hosting providers offering IPv6 and some of those look quite interesting… I just don’t personally know anyone hosting on them.
There is, of course, one of the strong proponents of IPv6, Hurricane Electric, who offer a traditional web hosting offering… which might be okay, although I admit that I’m more partial to a system that gives me ssh access with ideally full root access. I can get that root access – and IPv6 – over at someone like RapidXen that goes to the other extreme and just gives you bare bones hosting, i.e. here’s your server, here’s your command line… have fun. (Which I can be fine with, although I’m not overly interested in being responsible for all the system admin of my system.)
So… with all that, anyone out there have recommendations for hosting providers where I can run WordPress with IPv6? (thanks in advance)
P.S. And yes, it’s not 100% clear to me if WordPress plays well with IPv6, but then again, I know some people are doing it!
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Did you find any IPv6 Hosting with wordpress yet ? I am looking for the same thing.
Hi Dan,
Regarding your query about WordPress playing nicely w/ IPv6, there shouldn’t be a problem with this at all. Remember, this is why we have separation between all the layers in the OSI model, so that technologies existing in certain layers can be replaced without affecting adjacent or surrounding layers. There should be no issues with WordPress or any other web-hosted application when deployed properly on a v6 network.
Regarding Bluehost, I recently inquired about their v6 offering, and here was the dialog between myself and one of their sales people – http://www.shortestpathfirst.net/2010/11/01/bluehost-ipv6-epic-fail/
Stefan, Thanks for the comment and yes, I’d seen your epic fail when searching for info about Bluehost and IPv6. Rather classic! I had a conversation with them earlier this year and they indicated that IPv6 support was in the works but could give no timeframe. (Thankfully they did NOT mention IPv5.)
In the meantime, I have gone ahead and set up WordPress running on Hurricane Electric using their basic web hosting service (http://www.he.net/ ) and it’s worked fine over IPv6 so far. I have just set it up… I haven’t migrated any of my sites there yet, but I will be doing so soon.
Thanks for the reply and info.
Info is out of this world, I would love to read more.
http://www.hostinghq.ca
Yes! I can recommend digital ocean. They support IPv6 addresses and only cost $5 per month for a VPS. My article here tells you how you can get one or more WordPress blogs set up on a DigitalOcean VPN: http://www.buildacode.com/2015/04/if-you-use-shared-hosting-have-you.html
Not sure if still relevant for you, but maybe this would help someone else. We’re using http://www.sharkserve.rs and they offer native IPv6 for their VPS and dedicated server products with plans to offer it for shared hosting shortly.
For Bluehost, still they haven’t started the IPv6. But soon it will be available.
Recently I found out that BGOcloud also gives IPv6 support for free with almost all of their hosting services.