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NAT is an interesting solution and we offer 20 ports which helps people still host websites, apps and services on our servers without needing a dedicated IPv4 address (reverse proxy).

We have IPv6 support, you just need to submit a ticket after ordering and we add 20 native IPv6 addresses!

We have a rate limited SMTP port and if people go over this we will give 1 warning, ask for the reason and if it's valid then we will either just let it continue or lift the limit. Repeated offences will have services terminated immediately. Same goes for copyright offences. The resources are fairly small (HDD/SSD, BW) so it is not too hard to detect.

You may be interested (since you appear to offer DNS Hosting) that many of these Mini plans are used as DNS slaves because of their cheap price. An interesting use I've found.

We started off with a few servers in the Netherlands and just hosted the Mini NAT only range which took off really well. We've now bought a server in France to start a dedicated IPv4 range. We plan to expand this range into more countries and more places as it grows. Obviously then we will need a few more techs to manage the servers and it would become less bootstrapped.

We offer it for £4/year not month. SO significantly cheaper.

A Raspberry Pi would not provide better performance than the E3 we have.

Anyway an idea: it's fun. Trying to run a whole LAMP stack or a RoR stack on 64MB RAM is more fun than not using all your resources. Also we're cheap and people like that. We might not always beat them in performance but we don't break the bank either.

Expensive from the DC. We're introducing it ASAP. Currently we can provide clients with a tunnelled IPv6 address to an Amsterdam POP. This still offers good speeds and adds little latency. If you desire this then please submit a ticket and we can set it up.

They might sell them for that but when you're selling to a "low end" market at £4/year $10/address is quite expensive. Especially when we don't need a range bigger than a /27.

I agree there are still IPv4 addresses about but this teaches people that they are running out and we should look for other solutions.