So my nephew set this up for me last year on one of those OVHcloud plans. Now Contabo is offering me a cheaper box but it's IPv6-only. My nephew says "the internet box" needs IPv4 or nobody can read my bakery blog. Is that still true in 2026? I pay GoDaddy for the name and he says that's the "storage" (I think he means RAM?) part. Would I need to buy more storage from Cloudflare too? Just trying to keep costs down since Hostinger jacked up my renewal.
Actually your nephew is mixing up a few things there (not his fault, hosting has gotten weird (especially since 2019 (back in my day we just rented a KVM and called it good)))). IPv4 vs IPv6 is about the address your "internet box" uses, not storage (which would be your disk, RAM is memory, totally different). The real issue is some visitors still can't reach v6-only sites. I ran nginx 1.24.0 on a v6-only KnownHost instance last month and about 8% of my traffic (mostly older mobile networks (and one guy in rural Ohio on CenturyLink (bless him)))) couldn't connect.
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It does exist. Most major ISPs and mobile carriers have had reliable IPv6 for years now. The holdouts are usually enterprise networks with aging edge equipment. If your audience is typical home users, you are probably looking at 5-10% unreachable, which may or may not matter for a personal blog. Windows Server's IIS actually handles dual-stack fallback quite gracefully, though I know this forum leans Linux.
Most "dumb" questions about v6-only come from people who haven't looked at their own analytics. A lot of small business owners panic about losing customers when in reality their traffic is 90% mobile from carriers that rolled out v6 years ago. I feel you on the nephew situation too — family IT is its own special hell. Gently correcting: GoDaddy is your domain registrar, not storage or RAM. You'd want a v4-to-v6 proxy if you go v6-only.
Heads up: you need to request an IPv4 assignment separately, it is not automatic.
I benchmarked this last week. Direct v6 from my home: 12ms. Through the Oracle proxy: 18ms. Through Cloudflare: 34ms. The Oracle jump adds negligible latency and costs zero. The catch: you must keep the instance under the free tier limits or they bill aggressively.
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Sorry total noob here 😅 so if I understand right you can have the cheap v6 server but still let v4 people visit through this free oracle thing? Does that mean two "internet boxes" to manage? Sorry if dumb question
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Oracle thing? You mean cloudflare tunnel?
No, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They have a free tier with ARM and AMD instances. I run nginx on one and proxy_pass to my v6 backend. It's not a tunnel, it's a reverse proxy. Completely different thing from Cloudflare Tunnel which uses their edge network.
The "two internet boxes" question: you manage one box (the Oracle instance) and it talks to your other box (the Contabo v6). Your visitors only see the Oracle IP.
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Ah okay so the oracle box is like a translator in the middle. That makes sense thank you!
So if I do this Oracle thing and keep my GoDaddy name, I don't need to pay Cloudflare anything? And my blog shows up for everyone? I just want to make sure before I move from OVHcloud because last time I changed something my nephew was annoyed for a week. -- https://www.cloudflare.com
