Hi,

directed generally to any larger hosting company....


Not a common procedure in the UK....many hosts tend to simply use primary / secondary / tertiary DNS / Mail and web servers rather than BGP because of the *risks*....

Does anyone have any horror / success stories about using BGP?
Is it worth the time spent, and is it worth the money? ( ie. by purchasing decent Cisco equipment to handle it easily... )

Cheers,

Originally posted by jonny b
Hi,

directed generally to any larger hosting company....


Not a common procedure in the UK....many hosts tend to simply use primary / secondary / tertiary DNS / Mail and web servers rather than BGP because of the *risks*....

Does anyone have any horror / success stories about using BGP?
Is it worth the time spent, and is it worth the money? ( ie. by purchasing decent Cisco equipment to handle it easily... )

Cheers,

In my experience, you cannot live _without_ BGP.

Not a common procedure in the UK....many hosts tend to simply use primary / secondary / tertiary DNS / Mail and web servers rather than BGP because of the *risks*.... I think there may be some confusion. BGP is different the running redunant equipment. BGP basically allows you to use/broadcast your subnets across multiple providers for speed and redundancy.

no confusion!

I know what BGP is ;)

Its just that hosts i have spoken with tend to not use BGP and simply have multiple backup systems in different places in case of a failure at one of the nodes!

Cheers,

OK :) Just wanted to make sure. It's just that I would not run different servers in different locations because I don't want to use BGP.

If your host is not using BGP, I would suggest you might want to look elesewhere. It's almost a neccessary component of hosting if you want redunancy on your connection.

Hope that helps!

well heres a shocker for you ;)

The majority of UK hosts dont use BGP....and i mean the majority!

Thats why we want to use it.....for all the reasons discussed, thats why i'm asking here, because there arent very many sources to compare with in the UK!

Cheers,

Originally posted by jonny b
well heres a shocker for you ;)

The majority of UK hosts dont use BGP....and i mean the majority!

Thats why we want to use it.....for all the reasons discussed, thats why i'm asking here, because there arent very many sources to compare with in the UK!

Cheers,

I take it that UK based hosts tend to not use BGP because of BT's monopoly of the UK telecoms market?

Regards
Matt

Not really....

true, there arent a massive number of Tier 1's in the UK but there are a good number of Tier 2 and 3 providers, all be it using BT lines ;)

Probably just time to get a consultant in to advise on it !

Cheers,

Wow, that is shocking! I don't know of any reason why they would not use BGP unless BT will not cooperate with you on the routing (everyone has to play nice with each other when you run BGP).