I'd imagine most ISPs outright own their IP space and it's not a cost that increases over time. They're likely just paying fees to ARIN or RIPE or whoever the organization is that oversees issuing spa

They’ve obviously sunk a ton of money leasing space and transit across the globe, on top of hardware purchases. Connectivity/transit is their main business apparently, but they don’t seem to have any

I went through a similar research, though my own DNS service is on a much smaller scale. You may want to investigate X4B Anycast IPs https://www.x4b.net/protection/prices with GRE tunnels https://www.

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Yeah I agree. They're operating similar to GSL/CDN77's (what @davidobrik567 said) scale but with no known downstream customers.

I have spent days checking their company history and the company owner, Arne Ruhnau.

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No, since it's a single IP it has to be off our ASN. You're welcome to rent a /24 and do BGP in all of our locations if that's of interest (Image)

Yeah im mostly upset because i got very fluent in it then its suddenly gone. Need to relearn the details of a new distribution now

Same, I wish IBM would have left CentOS as it was too.

Disagree. LET is probably the user base that would choose to migrate over $1 cost per month difference, should a cheaper option arise. You don't have to be scummy to try to maximize income / customer,

Disagree. Only scummy providers should fear easy migration. Provide a solid product at a fair price, and people aren't likely to leave. A business that provides good services/support will always have

Wow, so many thoughtful replies! Thank you all—I’m flattered by the engagement. Let me try to address the questions, and who knows, maybe together we can turn this into something great.