I think you are too optimistic :) Many residentlial ISPs would rather do carrier grade NAT than implement ipv6 in the near time.
Actually, many are already doing the NAT stupidity.
@nunim true, you are only as safe as your host no matter what virtualization they are using. OpenVZ might require a little less typing once you've rooted the host node, but this doesn't make the rest (Xen/KVM/VMWare/whatever) any more secure.
There is not much time left to do it. Arin was at the 2.00 /8s left mark on the first of August. It took 5 months to burn 0.50 /8s, so i'd say this game ends on 1st of June or sooner - i.e. then Arin will have only one /8 left and should stop handing out big allocations.
I always wondered about this. Bandwidth prices are still high in Asia, and peering could help lower the average bandwidth costs for ISPs. And Singapore is such a small territory - it doesn't seem hard at all to have fiber pairs and peering between each two providers with presence there. It seems...
It doesn't matter which carrier it is and how badly oversold it is and how much it sucks. It will sooner or later create a different market and will make the other players lower their prices too, even if not to the same levels.
To me it also seems that the spinning of multiple ultracheap VPS companies under different names / hidden ownership is just a part of a big IP hoarding operation. They hoard a massive amount of IPs, then when ARIN dries out and the cost of IPs rises, all these companies will be no longer needed...
That's the point of "LL" in the name, it's limited liability. At least this is how it works here.
The owner of a Limited company is responsible up to the amount of capital he owns.
A Ltd. company can be opened with 1 Euro capital. In this case the owner would be responsible up to 1 Eur.