AMS region - availability of small server sizes

Hi there! <br>What about Amsterdam region. Currently it’s disabled … is it temporary or permanent?

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The issue is that RIPE the governing body that assigns IP space has run out of publicly available IPv4 addresses which means that no future requests can be fulfilled and that our current allocation that we’ve received from RIPE for IPv4 is our last. <br> <br>We’ve had to disable the smaller sizes to prevent completely running out of our current allocation and so that existing customers can spin up new servers if they need to. <br> <br>There are unfortunately no easy answers as the US is set to run out of IPv4 space next year followed by Latin America a couple months later. We hope that this is a temporary issue and are currently working with providers and third parties to secure additional IP space and we may be close to getting a sizable allocation. <br> <br>If we do we’ll announce how many times larger it is than our current allocation and re-enable the sizes. <br> <br>The future is rolling out IPv6 and as we approach further limitations of IPv4 it may force us to restrict smaller virtual servers to just IPv6 only while the larger ones will support both IPv4 and IPv6. <br> <br>This is really a new sitaution that we are entering into and a lot of providers are in the same boat. There may be some changes from some large organizations and there is talk about ARIN requesting that some entities that have massive IP space return unused space however that would only buy us another 1 year at best and eventually we would hit a wall. <br> <br>Fortunately IPv6 continues to be adopted in more places and without eventually switching everything over to it this is just a problem that we will delay. <br> <br>We welcome feedback on this issue.