Peer1/Server Beach support for BGP on dedicated servers

Sat May 19 16:20:02 UTC 2012

On 5/19/12 3:48 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
>> Was wondering if there's anyone from Server Beach/Peer1 here. We have a
>> dedicated server with them which we primarily use for DNS. I am adding
>> support for anycasting on that one but seems like Peer1 is not supporting
>> BGP at all. NOC support told me that they can announce our block
>> and statically pass us but cannot hear BGP announcement from our router.
>> Was wondering if someone else had similar issue?
> 
> Generally, most dedicated hosting (renting/leasing the exclusive use
> of a computer in their facility) outfits aren't setup to speak BGP to
> individual servers/customers. Such a request is usually infrequent
> enough that it doesn't warrant setting up the added hardware.
> 

There are places that can do such requests easily and quickly, but
they're typically smaller outfits that don't have thousands of customers
doing cookie-cutter packages.

~Seth