Intro
I've been following Dennis' @RaspberryPiCloud YouTube channel for years. Proxmox setups (local and on Hetzner), occasionally brutal takes on Ubiquiti, all of it. Entertaining is the right word, at least if your idea of a good time involves watching someone configure VLANs at midnight. Reliable source of inspiration for replicating solutions in my own lab.
I watched IPv64 grow from the sidelines and initially dismissed it as something I didn't need. Living in Denmark, I've been privileged enough to get a static IPv4 address from my ISP for around 30 DKK added to my monthly subscription — so the core DynDNS pitch never really compiled for me.
That changed when IPv64 started offering CDN and Cloud Routing. Suddenly the feature matrix got interesting. I wanted the CDN to hide the public IPs of my self-hosted projects, and the Cloud Router because I needed a reliable, fast enough VPN tunnel to Germany to bypass geo-restrictions — paid alternatives like PIA had repeatedly failed their reliance SLAs in practice. Who wants to watch a stuttering Arte or Discovery channel program on Fanø? A network purist would probably file a bug report against such an uninspiring use case — the cloud router is capable of so much more. But Unifi has SD-WAN built in, the family has been migrated to Unifi and Apple, and this is the use case I have.
I've since become a Business tier customer — not because I run a business, but because I "need" the SKUs. You know how it is.
Cloud Router — ★★★★★
Stable, low-latency enough for my purposes, and it just works. No incidents, no debugging sessions at 2am, no regrets. Five stars, no notes.
CDN — ★★★★☆
Solid. Automatic Let's Encrypt certs with zero manual intervention is genuinely one of those quality-of-life upgrades.
A couple of rough edges surfaced during migration though. It would have been really useful to run the same domain with mixed port configurations simultaneously — some subdomains on port 80, others on 443 — during the cutover window. That wasn't supported, which made the migration less graceful than it could have been.
I also still run Nginx Proxy Manager locally for internal routing, because I want to keep my firewall ruleset as minimal as possible — every unnecessary open port is a smell. My feature wishlist: proper NPM support for cert signing with custom domains, particularly subdomains (the current workaround doesn't hold up for subdomain chains). And yes, I have seen your NPM feature request. The real dream though would be collapsing CDN and Cloud Router into a single integrated service — routing inbound CDN traffic through a WireGuard tunnel directly into the internal network. Clean, encrypted, elegant. Someone put that in the backlog.
DNS Migration — ★★★★☆
Standard domains migrated cleanly. I was most worried about email as this is the only service someone or better the family is relying on. But recreating the mx and txt records was just work and not a problem at all. Punktum DK domains were a different story — IPv64's nameservers weren't registered with Punktum DK, the Danish domain registry, which is a hard dependency for .DK delegation to work. I helped get that resolved, and the support turnaround from IPv64 was impressively fast.
However — and this one is entirely a user error on my part — I fumbled the registration process, and I now apparently own one of IPv64's authoritative DNS servers under my account. It's sitting there. I haven't managed to get that cleaned up yet. It's fine. Everything is fine.
Context on My Setup
I'm probably not the archetypal IPv64 user. My ISP still doesn't issue IPv6 addresses, and until recently Unifi couldn't handle IPv6 on WAN at all — so a fair chunk of IPv64's core value proposition has simply been out of scope for me. I'm approaching the service purely through the CDN and routing lens, which means I'm running it slightly against the grain of its intended use case.
Verdict
The feature set is genuinely impressive, especially for the price point. At 100 EUR/year for a hobby project it sits comfortably in reasonable territory — cheaper than most cloud services that do half as much. The Punktum DK nameserver situation would be worth resolving properly for Danish users assuming I am not the only customer from Denmark, and that combined CDN + Cloud Router architecture would be a serious upgrade. But as it stands: recommended — particularly if the RaspberryPiCloud channel is already part of your regular homelab reading list.