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It’s a lot easier with RIPE, as with RIPE you can find a LIR that’ll get you both an ASN and a /40 for a symbolic one-time fee. cloudie.sh does them for $35. Li
by sgjohnson 3y ago
It’s a lot easier with RIPE, as with RIPE you can find a LIR that’ll get you both an ASN and a /40 for a symbolic one-time fee. cloudie.sh does them for $35. Lifetime.
Alternatively you can become a RIPE member and request all of the resources yourself, but that’ll cost you €2550 on the 1st year and then €1550 yearly.
You don’t need to be physically located in RIPE region to go the RIPE path. All you need is _connectivity_ in the region. A $5 BGP VPS counts as _connectivity_.
> or be a multi-homed site (would have required getting a second ISP to my residence, I believe?)
No. You needed to get 2 BGP servers. Another ISP to your home would be useless unless they both offered BGP sessions.
- AndroidKitKat 3y agoVery interesting -- thank you for the information. Just goes to show how naive I was and still am. I'll probably give this a go next time I have fun money in the budget.
- sgjohnson 3y agoYou can get it done for $35. I can vouch for this guy, I got both of my AS numbers from him. (AS200676 and AS50755). Of course the $35 doesn't include the VPS you'd need for actually announcing, but this is a _very_ cheap way to get into BGP. https://my.cloudie.sh/index.php/store/lir-services https://my.cloudie.sh/index.php/store/lir-services