Mfarhanonline Social Media News: The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace , the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here . The web has been running out of IP addresses, but some of the key players on the Internet have been testing a new protocol to ensure the future of connected devices. Every device that connects to the web gets a unique IP address; the protocol for those addresses, IPv4, only supported around 4 billion addresses. While some of those addresses are reusable, some are not. And the one-use addresses were leading up to the complete depletion of IP addresses. IPv6 is the new protocol, and it’s replacing IPv4. IPv6 will make space for a huge number of IP addresses. Now, all we have to do is prepare for a worldwide transition from one overarching protocol to another. June 8 was World IPv6 Day, and that’s exactly what participants were testing: whether or not websites, ISPs and consumers are IPv6-ready. Around 400 organizations teamed up and offered access to their sites via IPv6 for a 24-hour testing period. Here are some of the stats and findings that have emerged since these companies started working on the IPv6 problem. Series Supported by Rackspace The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace , the better way to do hosting. No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. Learn why. More Dev & Design Resources from Mfarhanonline: – How the WordPress SEO Plugin Can Help Your Blog INTERVIEW – Closed or Open Source: Which CMS is Right for Your Business? – A Look Back at Eight Years of WordPress – HOW TO: Get Started with the Less Framework – 4 Free Ways to Learn to Code Online data sources: The Inte! rnet Soc iety , Arbor Networks , Neustar , Internap , Google IPv6 Statistics More About: IPv4 , IPv6 , web development series , world ipv6 day For more Dev & Design coverage: Follow Mfarhanonline Dev & Design on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Dev & Design channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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