RE: Use your .co.za domain with a VPS provider like Contabo or Hostinger.
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Now hold on, you forgot a massively important step. You should point an AAAA record to your IPv6 address. V6 support is quite important to get around things like CGNAT which can impact performance on user's side.
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Thanx I will give that a look, personally my ISP does not support ipv6 without me changing over to a VPN so I don't always think about testing it but looking at my DNS list I don't see any AAAA records so will definitely look at adding them and I assume add support to Nginx for those who can benefit from IPV6. !PIZZA
I'm not too familiar with nginx(I use Caddy which support v6 out the box), but as long as it lists on [::1] you should be good to just add the record. According to google(https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption), only about 1.5% of South Africa supports v6, but with the recent changes like AWS charging for ALL IPv4 addresses, including those in use we are going to see that go up and up. Worldwide we are at about 45% v6 support, and the RIRs have ran out of v4 space to even give out. Buying a block of 256 IPv4 addresses costs about $8,500 right now(and it peaked at around $15k during 2022 I believe). It's worth it to support v6.
Definitely, and just from a web development standpoint as we test different browsers etc it makes sense to test both IP types, thank you for the heads up. I think for the most part in Nginx I just drop the IPV6 in the listen block and it should chug along nicely.
Nice and simple we like that.