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Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 10:06:03 +1000
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:31:11PM +0530, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
I have been aggressively looking for deals in servers in Europe for anycasting. One thing which surprises me is the "setup costs" for BGP. Few providers quoted additional $50-100 which looks OK but a few of them quoted as high as $150 *extra every month* just for having BGP (no full routing table, but just default route pointing). Is there's any technical logic behind such heavy costs? I mean at the end of day we are all talking at layer 3 and thus it does not involves any hard connection/physical work. What other members pay for BGP setup costs?
We pay what our providers think they can get away with. Like most pricing decisions, they're not based on any "technical logic", they're based on what the market will bear. Feel free to turn the process around -- decide what the service is worth to you, tell the provider of the service that price, and let them decide if they want to provide it to you at that price. Don't be too surprised if you get monkeys in exchange for your peanuts, though. - Matt
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- Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Anurag Bhatia (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? jim deleskie (May 25)
- RE: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Ashish Rastogi (May 25)
- RE: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Michael Hallgren (May 25)
- RE: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? John van Oppen (May 25)
- RE: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Michael Hallgren (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Jared Mauch (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Edward J. Dore (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Adam (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Seth Mattinen (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Joel jaeggli (May 26)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Adam (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Matthew Palmer (May 25)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Luke S. Crawford (May 26)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Matthew Palmer (May 26)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Jimmy Hess (May 27)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Luke S. Crawford (May 27)
- Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly? Luke S. Crawford (May 26)