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Why a NAT VPS can cost $1: the economics of an IPv4 address


An IPv4 address now costs more per month to rent than our cheapest server. How sharing one address between dozens of servers makes a $1 plan possible, what you give up, and why IPv6 doesn't have the problem.

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