BETA6

Has anyone mentioned Hurricane Electric? They'll peer v6 anywhere, free. Not full transit but if you just need v6 ratio improvement, a HE tunnel or peering session gets you v6 routes without transit cost. Your ratio against your paid upstreams improves because the v6 traffic flows elsewhere.

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Which provider was "handling" these snapshots

The redundancy isn't for uptime. It's for evidence. When you're in a dispute, multiple independent sources carry weight. One source is "your tool is broken." Three is a pattern.

I learned this from a lawyer friend. Courts love patterns.