Alright, so as we all know IPv4 is reaching the point of exhaustion and its time to start getting ready for IPv6. This can be very important for those of us who host web servers as many hosting providers will also be switching to assigning IPv6 addresses or NAT based Private IP’s in the Class A space 10.0.0.0/8 for IPv4 or fc00::/7 for IPv6 (Unique Local Address “ULA”). With that in mind how are you going to host your website on IPv6 address space? There are many web servers available as free Open Source software such as nginx, apache (httpd), and lighthttpd. For the context of this...

As many of you know I have decided to shift gears and accept a position with Silicon Valley startup Ning. With this transition I am migrating all  of my websites back over to linode. As a previous customer of linode I know that their service is reliable and they provide all of the features that an experienced I.T. professional is looking for including IPv6. Over the next few day’s I will be updating my servers to have IPv6 compatibility and networking which will give me the ability to host this blog in IPv4 as well as IPv6 address space. Following these updates I will document some of the...