Re:IPv4 pricing
by oarsinsync on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:21AM
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> If you want some serious redundancy nothing beats running services anycast with BGP across multiple cloud providers.
Unless they're TCP services. Or stateful UDP services. Then you're in for a world of pain if you try to anycast them.
The list of sensibly anycast services is surprisingly low. Stateless UDP services, essentially, which isn't a big list. Especially if you're the kind of person who's using Vultr's cloud, and not a megacorp.
If you have the resources to develop backend state sync, you're probably still better serviced with a (set of) load balancer(s).
Re:IPv4 pricing
by AdamJacobMuller on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:24PM
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No way. Stateful TCP over anycast works fine reliably to many nines.
I run a CDN with anycast BGP, this obviously uses TCP. Works great. I've also done it with a global network of physical datacenters and our own transit/peering network but eventually migated to the cloud for reasons.
Re:IPv4 pricing
by lenovouser on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:09PM
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Do you know of any other providers with at least the same quality that Vultr offers that offer BGP?
Re:IPv4 pricing
by oarsinsync on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:44PM
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Check out http://bgp.services/
Re:IPv4 pricing
by AdamJacobMuller on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @09:38PM
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This is absolutely awesome. I'm not sure if you're a maintainer of this list, but, this is VERY useful. You just found me a provider who is scratching an itch for a specific niche location which I've had for years. I owe you a beer or three.
Re:IPv4 pricing
by AdamJacobMuller on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:24PM
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Packet/Equinix Metal, but, they are much more expensive.
Also, some services, like, say, DNS servers need long-term portability of specific IPs across multiple providers.
I do both, actually on Vultr.