What Is IP Transit, and When Does Your Business Need It?

IP transit is the service that connects your network to the rest of the internet. Your provider carries your traffic to every other network in the world and announces your IP addresses so the world can reach you. Every ISP, hosting company and large content network needs it.

Transit and peering

• Transit reaches every network on the internet. You pay for the capacity of your port.
• Peering is a direct exchange of traffic between two networks, usually at an Internet exchange. It only reaches the networks you peer with, but the path is shorter.

A good setup uses both: peering for the networks your users are on, transit for everything else.

At Host.al, transit runs over Cogent and Hurricane Electric, and we peer at ANIX, Albania’s Internet exchange, with a 20 Gbps connection. We also peer directly with Cloudflare in Tirana, less than 0.3 ms away. So traffic to Albanian networks stays in Albania, and the rest goes out over two independent upstreams.

When do you need IP transit?

• You run an ISP or a business network and want your own connection to the internet.
• You have your own ASN or IP addresses and want them present in Albania. A BGP session is free with any of our VPS plans. See your ASN in Albania.
• You host content or services for Albanian users and want low latency inside the country and to the rest of the world.

If you only need a server with an internet connection, you don’t need to buy transit separately: it is included with our dedicated servers, VPS and colocation.

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Price

At Host.al, IP transit costs €185 a month for 1 Gbps and €1,550 a month for 10 Gbps (November 2026), with free setup. We offer transit in five locations. Current prices are on the IP Transit page.

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