(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider BurstNET (www.burst.net) announced this week that it had made Internet Protocol Version 6 available end-to-end across its entire product line.
The offer applies to the company’s dedicated servers, virtual private servers and colocation services, which, judging by the “services” section of the BurstNET website, encompasses the entirety of the company’s hosting services.
The move to IPV6 is an issue of ever-increasing urgency in hosting, telecommunications and other parts of the IT services industry, as the existing pool of IPv4 addresses grows closer to being completely depleted. Companies involved in the distribution of IP address space have been working to promote the shift, as they estimate the available pool of IPv4 addresses to be gone in approximately a year’s time.
In an interview appearing in the July issue of WHIR magazine, John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, discusses the IPV6 circumstances in detail (click here to read the digital edition).
In the press release announcing the new offering, BurstNET describes itself as “one of the first budget hosting providers to make IPv6 addressing service available end-to-end on its entire product line.”
The company says customers can use the offering to “get a head start” configuring services for IPv6, and suggests using a low-cost VPS package to learn how to configure IPv6.
About Liam Eagle
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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