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We're not a 1-man operation. We've got TWO whole people. And I did already pre-pay a month of service from a 3rd who'd work as a contractor, but because I'm retarded and busy I never created onboarding documentation or anything so basically just paid a dude to sit idle with no access to anything. Woops.
Anyway, 2 or 3 trustworthy well paid people is better than outsourcing to a 3rd world ticket factory even if they don't do the needful as fast.
Confirmed, please ban
edit: I view LET too much anyway
LOL. Turns out it's not just the customer that idle. Also have you consider to on-board your wife so it became a "family business"?
Ticket factory is cheap solution, but risk of agent deviating from SOP is high enough, risky. I think I have seen 3-4 times where LET provider's ticketing agent asked for the vps/root password. So, good choice 👍
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I will overtake you in 2035/2036
Why? Get LIR and own ASN is not much harder than open a company, you pay and that's it. And OVH, for example, has BYOIP, so you can announce own IPs from OVH network. It's same reseller, but with ASN.
An ASN is not a sign that you cannot make a mess of things. Examples enough to be found of that.
Asn costs money and requires knowledge. It may serve as a barier for entrance into hosting business. But yes, it does not define if vendor malicious.
Once she learns English, she's getting onboarded. (/s)
Once IncogilizuorMCSadmin is released I'll be saving enough on licensing fees that I can hire ten good men. (Also /s)
VirMach has its own ASN. Does this make it more reliable? Huh?
fruit and vegestables: $22,500.
Also "the famous" C1V hosting has its own ASN. Does this make them more reliable and should we bring the basement datacenter guy back? (With his "AI optimized" services)
Does ihost fart has ASN?
I've heard the owner has behaved poorly but in the year I've had services with him, I've never had any reliability issues. Actually, I don't think there's been enough downtime for me to even notice.
https://bgp.tools/as/214209
https://bgp.tools/as/214209 according to their footer website
No downtime, true, but poor quality for me.
And yet 20k in BTC was siphoned. That's the answer - ASN does not stop or indicate anything beyond penis size.
Wait, when @TheGreatOakley said “Leaseweb reseller,” was he specifically referring to us? Really?
For context, we operate our own ASN, AS150623, and announce more prefixes than quite a few providers here:
https://bgp.he.net/AS150623#_prefixes
That's only for our India infrastructure.
For our other locations, we use Leaseweb for colocation and network connectivity, which is why those IP ranges are announced under Leaseweb’s ASN.
We chose Leaseweb instead of dealing directly with individual data centers for one reason: operational reliability.
Remote hands and emergency support are extremely important when you operate infrastructure across multiple countries. With Leaseweb, if there is a hardware or rack-level issue, we can generally expect their team to reach our rack quickly and assist. In our experience, that is often better than relying on third-party remote-hands companies or even some datacenter-operated remote-hands services.
Of course, there are excellent datacenter operators such as Equinix and several others, but support quality varies considerably between facilities.
We also use Leaseweb’s network rather than building and operating our own network at multiple locations.
Running your own network properly is not as simple as buying IP transit and plugging in a router. You need engineers available 24/7, proper redundancy, monitoring, routing expertise, carrier management, incident response, and enough scale to justify the operational cost.
Using Leaseweb’s network is certainly not cheaper than simply purchasing transit directly. In fact, it can be considerably more expensive. But what we are paying for is stability, operational support, and a network team that is available around the clock.
After being in this business for 13 years, we have learned that the cheapest infrastructure is not always the best infrastructure.
So yes, we deliberately chose to work with a company that has been operating for more than 20 years because reliability and stability matter more to us than simply being able to say that every router, transit session, and datacenter contract is managed independently.
Oh it was not my intention to imply this.
I just used you as an example of a Leaseweb reseller that is generally doing a good job, I would argue also because of the stability you get from using a platform like Leaseweb.
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Perhaps there is a Leaseweb alternative you overlooked.
Oh, but I don’t think he said anything about having your own ASN issued through an LIR or directly by an RIR. in that case yes they do ask for documents.
There is, of course, but not at a comparable cost.
Either the cost is too high, or the reliability is questionable.
There are very few options when you also consider cost and reliability.
When you have a lot of money to spend, it's an easy choice, but when you have a limited budget and are also looking for quality, the options are very few.
Yes i know of course
Curse you Perry the Platypus