Sucura Networks

Sucura Networks, network infrastructure with its own ASN

Sucura Networks Inc. is a Canadian network infrastructure provider that operates autonomous system AS398999. Its catalog combines dedicated servers, colocation, virtual machines, IP transit, DDoS protection and data center interconnection services, distributed across eight locations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The company presents itself as the owner of its network and backbone, with its own link between its two Canadian points of presence, Toronto and Montreal, aimed at offering dedicated capacity and low latency in connectivity between the two cities. Its network credentials include ASN AS398999, AS-SET AS-BOREAL and a PeeringDB registration.

Hosting and connectivity services

The core of the offering is bare metal dedicated servers with full IPMI access, available in various configurations by location and including a 10G fair share port. The company also offers colocation for customer-owned equipment, from a single rack unit to a full rack, with BGP option and 24/7 remote hands.

In virtualization, it sells KVM virtual machines on NVMe storage and 10G ports, with hourly billing or monthly plans, one IPv4 and one /64 IPv6 block per machine, self-managed BGP support and DDoS protection included. The catalog also includes budget plans and virtual machines in Toronto with Canadian data residency.

Connectivity is completed with IP transit, data center interconnection (DCI) services and an edge firewall solution that applies a single ruleset to all contracted IP addresses, with 5-tuple rules and management from the customer panel.

SucuraGuard: DDoS mitigation

SucuraGuard is the company's DDoS protection platform, with over 2 Tbps of scrubbing capacity spread across nine global centers. Mitigation can be deployed via GRE tunnels or BGP announcements, covers layer 3 and 4 volumetric attacks and is presented with sub-second detection and response and real-time monitoring from the Nexus portal.

The service is included at no additional cost on dedicated servers, virtual machines and colocation. For those who need remote protection, the company publishes 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps plans with monthly prices listed on its website.

Specific protection for Minecraft servers

Its specialized services include DDoS protection for Minecraft servers based on a global anycast reverse proxy. The customer points their domain to the Sucura network and the company handles filtering the attacks. The solution includes failover and load balancing across multiple backends, real IP forwarding compatible with BungeeCord and self-service management from the Nexus panel, with seven points of presence worldwide.

Eight locations on three continents

The network spans eight points of presence. In North America it operates in Toronto (Ontario), Montreal (Quebec), Dallas (Texas), Chicago (Illinois), New York and Ashburn (Virginia); in Europe, in Frankfurt (Germany); and in Asia-Pacific, in Singapore. Not all services are available at all sites: dedicated servers and colocation are concentrated in Toronto, Montreal and Dallas, while virtual machines reach five locations and DDoS protection is included everywhere.

The company details that its Chicago data center is located at 350 E Cermak and that its Toronto headquarters is at 245 Consumers Road. The European offering includes virtual machines with Ryzen 9 9950X processors in Frankfurt, and the Singapore one is aimed at DDoS protection and BGP.

Customer profile and industry alliance

Sucura Networks targets network operators, developers and businesses that need their own infrastructure, private links between data centers or dedicated capacity. The company is a founding member of CIHA (Canadian Independent Hosting Alliance), an alliance of small Canadian independent hosting providers that share resources, coordinate group buys and refer customers to each other.

Customer support is channeled by phone, with IVR options for sales, support and network operations center, and through a Discord community.