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¡Hot take! IPv4 dedicated is very dead weight ¿no? I write long thing then delete jajaja. Listen: CGNAT works. IPv6 works. Legacy apps must die or tunnel. Provider friends laugh to bank selling /29 for price of server itself. I run p2p mesh, NAT is very friend, not enemy. But then I think: banks, old ERP, some game server... they scream. Still. Luxury good. Like caviar. For IP. Jajaja absurd world.
47 IPv4, 5 v6-only. Cost breakdown:
Power draw perspective: dual Xeon E5-2680v4, 128GB DDR4, 2x1TB NVMe. 150W idle. Add IPv4? Zero watts. Add CGNAT appliance? 80W, 2U, $800 used. Rack space costs more than IPs at my colo.
Shipping pallets of decommissioned Dell R640s from OVHcloud last month — https://www.ovhcloud.com — 10Gbase-T, €220/unit. IPv4 not even on BOM.
Twenty years in this business, mark my words: the transition costs will dwarf any address savings. You'll tunnel IPv4 over IPv6 over HTTPS, three layers of duct tape, and call it progress. The bills come due eventually.
Costs very bad. Perkele. CGNAT revenue good. Provider prints money. Customer pays double. Network okay. Server good. IPv4 bad investment. Perkele again.
OVHcloud R640s at €220? What CPU config, dual or single.
Resale 40% higher, the market is truly broken
Perkele. I felt that. CGNAT tax is real.
