After working closely with our co-location and IT services provider, Blacknight, we have proudly aquired the title of “Irelands first commercial IPv6 website” for our titleMenupages http://www.menupages.ie/

As you may know, the urge to migrate to IPv6 is becoming stronger. Why? In the current internet protocol version, IPv4, we have been estimated to run out of IP addresses between 2009 and 2011. Since the majority of devices now use an IP address, mobile phones, TVs, etc - The time until we run out of IPv4 address is coming soon.

The decision to re-organize the method in which internet addressing was done. IPv6 was the choice & was born. First thoughts when installing/deploying IPv6 are daunting. But after a couple of hours, you become very familiar with the it. The firewall configured was a Cisco ASA 5505 which had plenty of IPv6 support.

Since menupages.ie is a .NET application, it’s most stable environment is in IIS. IIS6 support is extremely lacking, so we decided to opt with IIS7 on the Windows Web Server 2008 platform. Primarily for it’s IPv6 support but also because of it’s .NET env support.

If you visit the Menupages website over IPv6 support you will notice on the top left hand side of the homepage - “You are viewing via IPv6″. I would like to thank Blacknight for their continued support in achieveing this goal. It would not have been possible without them. Let’s try get IPv6 moving forward..