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VPS with access to IX peering vlans
Hi guys,
i am looking for a few different vps offers arround the world which have access to one or more Internet exchanges. I would like to advertise my AS via vps to IX for anycast ip services. Uplink speeds between 100M to 1G are welcome.
I already have some services to:
SBIX (Dus/Zur)
KleyRex
4IXP
LocIX
EVIX
BFD-IX
Do you know any other provider (or you can provide) which can offer something?
Thanks!
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FreeRangeCloud offers VPSs with direct access to the Unmetered Exchange in Vancouver, Canada. Other than that, I would say there are not many options left, as what you want is rather unorthodox.
I don't understand what you're anycasting over a bunch of tunnels and virtual ix's
I too am unsure exactly what you are looking to do with a tunnelled virtual IX anycast network but each to their own. Possibly explain your use case for a better answer?
I have never used these services but these are some other IX's that can be accessed via VPS:
NL-ix - https://vps66.cloud/cart.php?gid=1 (also KleyReX (100M) or LocIX (1G) but you have them already)
SwissIX and DE-CIX - https://www.securebit.ch/server/internet_exchange (also SBIX and 4IXP that you already have)
2 of those are not Virtual IX'es.
But for the rest, yeah.
It's quite easy: I using my own AS to advertise my prefixes to a bunch of IXs and providers. Same prefix set is advertised to all providers. This allows a realy short AS path to users with low latency or "free" traffic exchange instead of using transit providers. Edge VMs for virtual IXs are also placed somewhere in the same data center -> short path. Workload are hosted very close where the IX is running.
IX VMs are often quite cheap instead of getting a direct member because IX partners can resell a single link to different clients. So, costs for cross-connects and membership can be forwarded to a set of users.
I'm using colocation or dedicated servers with cross-connects where no reseller exist (e.g. SpeedIX).
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It's only my list, thank you!
Not too sure what you want to achieve, but one thing I learnt is that there is a difference between IP transit and peering. You might want to check out whether your IP prefixes are actually getting to the DFZ with your peerings.
Also, what I found is that IP transit providers are cheaper than some of the IX VPS.
Edir: Sorry, read your message wrong
I already have a KleyRex/LocIX Server with you. Great Services!