Anycast with three $3/month VMs—will it blend?

So I did a thing (as one does) (at 2am) (which is either the best time or the worst time for networking decisions) (there is no middle ground) I set up anycast across three VMs (three!) (count them) (three whole dollars per month each) (from RackNerd, Contabo, and some Oracle free tier I found crying in a corner) using BGP communities and honestly? It works (works!) (not "production works" but "I poked it and it didn't catch fire works") (which is a category I respect) the routing is janky as expected (very janky) (BGP path prepending that looks like modern art) but failover actually happens within like 30 seconds (I timed it with a stopwatch) (very scientific) (my methodology was yelling at ping and watching numbers) anyway I wrote up the bird config if anyone wants to replicate my questionable life choices (you shouldn't) (but you will) (I know this forum)

Xixixi annexbi you are crazy lah! I am buy yesterday a VM from RackNerd also, very cheap, but I never try anycast before. You are use BGP communities from the provider or you are announce your own IP? I am confuse how the small VM can do routing like this. Very interesting setup, I want to try also xixixi. But my english no good, sorry lah.

Lol ok so I tried something like this once haha it was a disaster my bgp sessions kept flapping haha and the provider got mad at me anyway your setup sounds cool but three dollars is still three dollars haha I spend more on coffee have you been ddosed yet haha thats usually what happens when you announce anycast on cheap vms the internet finds you

Someoneelses Network Instability is not a Feature. You have built a HouseOfCards on top of OtherPeoples Infrastructure and called it Resilience. The BGP Communities you are using are not meant for this kind of Abuse[1] and the fact that it "works" is more Accident than Design. Within one week you will attract someoneelses DDoS because anycast on cheap VMs is basically a Lighthouse for every ScriptKiddie scanning for Reflection Amplifiers. [1]see RFC7454 section 2

This deployment raises significant concerns under Article 13 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, though as far as I can determine the technical implementation itself does not directly implicate upload filtering obligations. More pressingly, the Oracle free tier involves data processing agreements that I don't think comply with GDPR processor requirements from memory; you should verify whether RackNerd and Contabo maintain adequate safeguards for EU data subjects. The anycast topology itself is neutral from a policy standpoint, but I would document your lawful basis for any traffic logging across these jurisdictions. Have you conducted a DPIA?