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