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by pooper 1424 days ago
Maybe it is still a fair question for machines that should only be reachable by other machines you fully own (like database servers and so on)? Just thinking out loud.
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Or if you’re putting Cloudflare or another CDN in front anyway
Why would those machines need any public IP address, be it IPv4 or IPv6? I'm not sure if we have a single database server with a public IP address.
OP is talking about VPS servers someone _other_ (eg. Hetzner) runs, I think.
Hetzner VPS instances don't need to have public IP addresses.

>Assign Primary IPs to your server to establish a connection to the internet. Or create a private-network-only cloud server by not adding any Primary IPs at all. You can change the selected network option at any time.