Peer1/Server Beach support for BGP on dedicated servers

Sat May 19 18:19:24 UTC 2012

Any recommendations of such?

                -Bill

On May 19, 2012, at 9:20, "Seth Mattinen" <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:

> 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
> 