So it’s been a while since I last posted and this morning was very happy to see that all is still well with my blog.  Thanks to the excellent VPS hosting  by  Instafree.

One thing for sure.  If anything would have happened in that I’d have been unable to access my blog,  I’d have had to study through all of my posts and notes as this blog is the first blog that I set up using IPv6.  The reason I joined Instafree and was generously provided with a free VPS, was the VPS works with IPv6 only.  IPv6 was totally new to me.  Up to March I had been spoilt with IPv4 only.  At the time I had wondered what progress would have been made, and whether it would be easier to use IPv6.  And then found that the free hosting community was still very much IPv6 resistant.  Yes, much progress has been made, but when I searched for a free panel script, I couldn’t find a single one that worked with IPv6.  I had to set up the VPS from scratch.

Furthermore, in spite of fixing the DNS of my domain at Namecheap to be used with an IPv6, that didn’t work. So Namecheap DNS for IPv6 is also not with it yet.  In the end Cloudflare came up as a champion for IPv6 DNS and I finally was able to set my VPS WP blog up. It took some struggles to arrive at Cloudflare as my very last option, but for the first time since Cloudflare has been around, I feel that they actually rescued me from giving up on being able to use IPv6.  Success at last!

A further shortcoming with IPv6 however soon made its appearance in that WordPress is not set up to work with IPv6 yet.  That was a bit shocking to me, particularly since WordPress didn’t mention this in its Dashboard, when I was having serious issues with uploading plugins directly.  It kept on coming up with notifications in the Dashboard providing a few reasons (all of those on the user side of course) why there was an issue.  I had to research and dig deep in the WordPress support posts to discover that the issue was with WordPress and not IPv6 users.  WordPress is still not set up to work with IPv6.  They expect the user to set up their IPv6 to have the appearance of IPv4 so it can work seamlessly with the WordPress Website.  I was not prepared to do that as what was the point.  We’re supposed to be able to work with IPv6 as IPv6.  If Cloudflare can do that as well as a few other Websites, why not WordPress?

So let’s see what has happened since March, and whether we are able to update our blog easily, or will have to update the plugins manually.