Selecting additional options

Next, select the following additional options:

  • Private networking: This gives each VPS instance an internal IP address, which allows services deployed in the same data center to communicate with each other. At the time of this writing, this option is free and does not count towards your monthly bandwidth quota.
  • IPv6: IPv4 can support up to 4,294,967,296 unique IP addresses. The internet has grown so much that we are close to exceeding this limit. Therefore, IPv6 increases the number of bits in the IP address from 32 bits to 128 bits, yielding 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses. By checking this option, we allow users to use the IPv6 address to address our server.
  • Monitoring: Collects ...

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