Thoughts on BGP and Shared Hosting Environments

Fri Oct 19 21:04:03 UTC 2001

Had an interesting situation yesterday.

Received a new /20 allocation.
Split it into /19's and advertised it to two separate backbones via two
separate routers.

Users on the new /19's could get to about 75% of the available web hosts on
the internet.

I removed the /19's and advertised the entire /20 out of both servers,
problem resolved.

Any suggestions?

Also, what are the groups opinions on web hosting customers who want to
install custom ASP and COM components on a shared Windows 2000/IIS hosting
server?  I'm having a debate with a sales dude over this issue.

My opinion is that it potentially destabilizes all of the virtual hosts on
that system.  When I hear "Can you install just a couple of ASP or COM
components on my domain" my mind immediately goes to putting this customer
in their own dedicated colo server.  I don't think its right to jeopardize
several hundred virtual domains because one $19.99/month customer wants to
load up a special .dll.  But that's just my rant, market conditions can
dictate otherwise.

Regards,
Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
http://www.bblabs.com
email:chris at bblabs.com
phone:520.622.4338 x234