Rankings of virtual private server providers
April 27, 2018
Motivation
When evaluating the quality of IPv6 connection, it is very hard to judge from the official websites of virtual private server (VPS) providers. An explicit list is presented here for your convenience.
Legend
- Platinum: An IPv6 prefix (<=64) is routed to a VPS.
- Gold: Within a prefix (<=64), any IPv6 address can be used via ICMP6 neighbor discovery.
- Silver: Within a prefix (<=64), any IPv6 address can be used via ICMP6 neighbor discovery. But the address pool is shared with others.
- Bronze: IPv6 is available but the number of addresses less than a /64 prefix.
- Garbage: No IPv6 is provided but Simple Internet Transition(SIT, Protocol 41) or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE, Protocol 47) can be used.
- Shit: Neither IPv6 is provided, nor SIT/GRE can be used.
Table
| VPS/ISP | Ranking | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Linode | Platinum | /56 |
| Vultr | Gold | |
| zeptovm | Gold | |
| TUNET2 | Bronze | /128 |
| DigitOcean | Bronze | /124 |
| Conoha | Bronze | /124 |
| Sakura | Bronze | /128 |
| kimsufi | Bronze | /128 |
| Microsoft Azure | Bronze | |
| Tencent Cloud | Bronze | extra cost for IPv6 |
| Aliyun | Bronze | extra cost for IPv6 |
| Amazon AWS | Garbage | |
| Mtyun | Garbage | |
| Google Cloud | Shit |