VPS with local peering to Cox in Las Vegas

ehhthing

Hi,

I'm looking for a VPS in Las Vegas that doesn't backhaul to LAX for local connections to Cox Communications.

Every VPS I've found (BuyVM - Both regular and DDoS protected, Hostodo, DediPath) seems to route via LA, which kinda defeats the purpose of having my VPS in Vegas.

As far as I can tell, anything at Fiberhub in Vegas will route via LA for connections to Cox.

Any other options?

concept

I would look at Fiberhub,
It doesn't route via LA for me.
Using Fiberhub's Looking Glass lg.las1.as53340.net/ and the various IP from Cox's Las Vegas subnet 24.120.0.0/16

 1  162-251-232.hosted-by.fiberhub.com (162.251.232.169)  0.499 ms  0.611 ms  0.762 ms
 2  192.228.109.85 (192.228.109.85)  0.308 ms  0.336 ms  0.346 ms
 3  192.228.109.246 (192.228.109.246)  0.300 ms  0.363 ms  0.403 ms
 4  et-5-0-2.mcs1.las2.us.zip.zayo.com (208.184.216.145)  0.561 ms  0.508 ms  0.457 ms
 5  ae6.mpr2.las15.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.31.26)  0.936 ms  0.914 ms  1.021 ms
 6  * * *
 7  * * *

ehhthing

@concept said:
I would look at Fiberhub,
It doesn't route via LA for me.
Using Fiberhub's Looking Glass lg.las1.as53340.net/ and the various IP from Cox's Las Vegas subnet 24.120.0.0/16

 1  162-251-232.hosted-by.fiberhub.com (162.251.232.169)  0.499 ms  0.611 ms  0.762 ms
 2  192.228.109.85 (192.228.109.85)  0.308 ms  0.336 ms  0.346 ms
 3  192.228.109.246 (192.228.109.246)  0.300 ms  0.363 ms  0.403 ms
 4  et-5-0-2.mcs1.las2.us.zip.zayo.com (208.184.216.145)  0.561 ms  0.508 ms  0.457 ms
 5  ae6.mpr2.las15.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.31.26)  0.936 ms  0.914 ms  1.021 ms
 6  * * *
 7  * * *

Try 68.1.1.101. You need the full route, the traceroute implies that the packets are getting dropped before they enter Cox's network

HOST: lg.las1.as53340.net                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
1.|-- 162-251-232.hosted-by.fiberhub.com  0.0%    10    0.6   0.9   0.5   2.9   0.7
2.|-- 192.228.109.85                      0.0%    10    5.7   2.8   0.5  10.9   3.9
3.|-- 192.228.109.246                     0.0%    10    0.5   0.6   0.5   0.7   0.1
4.|-- et-5-0-2.mcs1.las2.us.zip.zayo.com  0.0%    10    0.6   0.8   0.6   0.9   0.1
5.|-- ae6.mpr2.las15.us.zip.zayo.com      0.0%    10    1.3   1.2   1.0   1.4   0.1
6.|-- ae24.cs1.lax112.us.zip.zayo.com    60.0%    10    8.2   8.4   8.1   8.9   0.4
7.|-- ae19.ter1.lax12.us.zip.zayo.com    90.0%    10    8.0   8.0   8.0   8.0   0.0
8.|-- maribbpj01-ge302.r2.at.cox.net      0.0%    10    8.1  10.0   8.0  24.0   5.0
9.|-- ???                                100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
10.|-- ???                                100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
11.|-- 68.1.0.85                           0.0%    10   13.4  13.8  13.3  17.2   1.2
12.|-- 68.1.1.101                          0.0%    10   14.7  14.6  14.4  14.7   0.1

SirFoxy

Cox user here and I’ve noticed the same thing.

LV locations never worked out well for me.

ordinanceb

Cox has a DC local to you in LV. They have a cloud product similar to DigitalOcean / AWS / Linode. They aren't as cheap as the aforementioned providers but have great peering when on their network. They also have 12 months free of a decent spec LE VM and Container or a $250 credit, similar to AWS. https://www.coxedge.com

ehhthing

@ordinanceb said:
Cox has a DC local to you in LV. They have a cloud product similar to DigitalOcean / AWS / Linode. They aren't as cheap as the aforementioned providers but have great peering when on their network. They also have 12 months free of a decent spec LE VM and Container or a $250 credit, similar to AWS. https://www.coxedge.com

Wow I didn't know about this. I don't really mind pricing much since this is for a yearly event that lasts a few days anyway.

Thanks a lot!

concept

hmm the coxedge thing mentioned above seems interesting. It's honestly hard to avoid it routing through LA because its just such a big hub for West Coast.