Re: IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 24, 2012, at 21:08 , Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:52 PM, John Mitchell wrote: >> Does the best practise switch to now using one IPv6 per site, or still the >> same one IPv6 for multi-sites? > > Certainly it would be nice to have IPv6 address per vhost. In many > case

Re: IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread Aleksi Suhonen
Morning, The way to allocate IPv6 addresses per website depends more on the technologies already in use at the hosting site. An existing hoster will move slowly to any alternative method. I predict a bigger, faster change in the way medium sized sites do load balancing. IPv6 allows hosters t

Re: IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:52 PM, John Mitchell wrote: > Does the best practise switch to now using one IPv6 per site, or still the > same one IPv6 for multi-sites? Certainly it would be nice to have IPv6 address per vhost. In many cases, this will be practical. It also sometimes will NOT be pra

Re: IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread Tony Finch
William Herrin wrote: > > but I also can't imagine hosting more than 65,000 sites on a single > server. Demon's homepages service was based on IPv4 virtual hosting and had IIRC a /16 and two /18s allocated to it. It was a single web server with a few reverse proxies that took most of the load and

Re: IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread John Levine
>Does the best practise switch to now using one IPv6 per site, or still >the same one IPv6 for multi-sites? As I've been migrating my sites to IPv6, each site gets its own IP. Works great. I did find that I needed to improve my tools so I could track the individual IP addresses and assign the ap

Re: IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:52 PM, John Mitchell wrote: > Question about what other service/network providers are doing in relation to > allocation of addresses for websites. > > With IPv6 starting to trickle its way in, what is considered the industry > best practise now for IP(v6) addresses bonded

IPv6 Address allocation best practises for sites.

2012-09-24 Thread John Mitchell
Question about what other service/network providers are doing in relation to allocation of addresses for websites. With IPv6 starting to trickle its way in, what is considered the industry best practise now for IP(v6) addresses bonded to websites. In the past the standard practise was to have