Your ASN in Albania: a Free BGP Session on a VPS from €2.95 a Month
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Do you have your own ASN and want your network to be present in Albania? At Host.al you don’t need a rack, a contract or a sales call. Order any VPS in Tirana, from €2.95 a month on yearly billing, and the BGP session is free.
Who it’s for
- Companies and ISPs that want their IP space reachable from inside Albania, with short paths to users in Albania and Kosovo.
- Network engineers building a point of presence in the Balkans.
- Enthusiasts with a personal ASN who want to run BGP themselves and learn how the internet routes traffic.
Three ways to use it
1. We announce your IPs for you
No ASN, or no wish to run BGP? Send us your prefixes. We announce them from AS213683 and route them to your VPS, your server or your router. You manage nothing but your addresses.
2. A BGP session with your router
Have your own router, on a dedicated server or in colocation? You get a BGP session with AS213683 and announce your prefixes from your own ASN.
3. BGP on your VPS with BIRD or FRRouting
The enthusiast’s choice. Install BIRD or FRRouting (FRR) on your VPS, the two most popular open-source BGP daemons, and set up a session with us. You decide what you announce and how traffic leaves your network. A small Minion VPS is enough to run a BGP session.
What you get
- IPv4 and IPv6 sessions with AS213683.
- Transit from Cogent and Hurricane Electric and peering at ANIX, Albania’s Internet exchange.
- No extra cost: the BGP session and the announcement are free with every VPS plan in Tirana.
What to prepare
- Prefixes of at least /24 for IPv4 and /48 for IPv6. Smaller prefixes are filtered on the internet.
- Route objects (route / route6) in the RIPE database with the announcing ASN as origin: yours, or AS213683.
- RPKI ROAs for the same prefixes and ASN.
- A letter of authorization (LOA) if we announce prefixes for you.
Once the objects are correct, the session is usually up within 24 hours. You can check our network first with the Host.al looking glass.
Need more bandwidth?
For dedicated 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps transit ports, see IP Transit and what IP transit is.
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