Practical Technology

What do you think the number one source of traffic is on the Internet today? E-Mail? Not even close. Conventional Web sites? Not way! Porn!? No, believe it or not, it’s not that either. The single biggest source of traffic on today’s Internet is Netflix. Its videos, and those of other video sites, require their [...]

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Hurricane Electric, arguably the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and co-location provider, has expanded its IPv6 Professional Services offerings so that they can now help you with IPv6 datacenter deployments. If you’re a home user or just have a small office/home office (SOHO), you don’t need to worry about the fact that we’re running out [...]

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I’m not the least bit surprised that more people and companies haven’t moved to IPv6. Yes, they know that we’re running out of IPv4 Internet addresses. Indeed, some may know that Asia’s already run out of IPv4 addresses. But does that mean that they’re switching over to the IPv6 Internet? According to Akamai’s State of [...]

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The clock has stuck midnight. While your carriage may not have turned into a pumpkin, we really are out of IPv4 addresses on the Internet. Oh sure, in North America, a few addresses left haven’t been spoken for yet, but they’ll be gone by the end of 2011. And you can buy IPv4 addresses for [...]

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Internet administrators were 99.9999% sure that World IPv6 Day would go by without any real problems. Of course, when you’re dealing with something as big as the Internet, even six nines of up-time could mean hundreds of thousands of users with trouble. So far, though, all is well. At noon Eastern time, all the dual-stacked [...]

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