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Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet? (ipv6.rs)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From their site:

Instantly launch your favorite internet appliance with just a click using Cloud Seeder, our open-source server appliance platform for everyone, or use your skills and manually setup a home server lab. With IPv6rs, you will have the external IP you need to self host on your home computer or mobile device.

$10 a month, or $60 for a year, or $80 for 2 years.

Seems they give you an externally routable IP6 address, and then make that route to your home network, where you still have to run the server. They do have an app which is meant to make it easier to install podman containers for whatever service you want to run. For some reason, they call those "appliances". Not a fan of that word.

Before anyone jumps in to say, "Pffft. I do this now for free" - this isn't aimed at you then, is it? It's aimed at making it possible for less technical people to self-host some of their digital life, which is a good thing in general, in my mind. Kind of like how Linux needed more user-friendly distros for the masses to increase adoption. Good on them, I say, and good luck.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (9 children)

What problem does this solve? Do ISPs not provide IPv6 prefixes anymore?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I believe it's helps expose apps running on a home server to the public internet, securely. It allows self hosters to tie internal apps to a domain name. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what a firewall and a DNS service is for respectively, imho. As long as you get an IPv6 prefix from your ISP, you can expose as many devices or services to the public as you want, by just allowing incoming traffic to a listening port. That was sort of the whole point of having a large enough address space when moving away from v4. Maybe it's just me but reading stuff about "private AI" on a website where the relation to the product is not immediately obvious, makes me question their legitimacy.

The more I look at their site, the more it reads like a sales pitch for IPv6, which sounds kind of expensive at $6-10 a month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming it's aimed at people trying to avoid tying the hosting IP to the publicly consumable service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You mean hiding their public IP? I guess that's a feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Doesn’t a DNS provider do that?

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