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It is no secret that Cloudflare is encouraging companies to deprecate their use of IPv4 addresses and move to IPv6 addresses. We have a couple articles on the subject from this year:And many more in our catalog. To help with this, we spent time this last year investigating and implementing infrastructure to reduce o...

Inspired by a recent post about email server software. The biggest hurdle to self-hosting email is large providers (especially gmail) putting your mail into spam regardless of whether or not you conform to the latest smtp standards (spf, dkim, dmarc, mta-sts), leading many to believe the large providers consider IP reputation as the most important signal for spam. Surprisingly many lobsters reported having no...

Illustration: Serge Bloch UPDATE 14 DEC. 2023: Metcalfe’s law is wrong! This contrarian take on a seemingly canonical law of networks graced the pages of IEEE Spectrum in 2006. (The article itself is found in full, below.) And “Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong” has remained a burr in the saddle of a variety of internet gurus...