% whois -h whois.theitdept.au AS152590 org-name: The IT Dept Pty Ltd aut-num: AS152590 admin-c: Nick Pratley — npratley.net country: AU — Sydney, NSW infra: Juniper, own ASN, v4 /23 + v6 compute: more cores and RAM than is sensible upstream: Leaptel — transit + NBN layer 2 also-runs: RIPE Atlas anchor funding: none. runs on customers and stubbornness. remarks: built for one person's home internet. remarks: massively oversized. on purpose. remarks: small number of customers. occasionally room. status: TAKING A FEW
Internet infrastructure, for people who run their own.
This is a one-man network, run as craft for twenty-odd years. Telco-grade kit in a Sydney data centre, our own address space, and considerably more capacity than one house needs. It is not a startup. There are no investors, no growth targets, no account managers, and no tickets about WordPress. Nobody is trying to exit. There is nothing to exit to.
It's kept deliberately small. When there's room, a few people get in. You deal directly with the person who runs the routers.
INTERNET — NBN, DONE PROPERLY
LIMITED INTAKENo CGNAT, BYO router without an argument, and every plan includes a static v4 and a v6 /56 — not as an add-on, as the default. For people who know what those words mean.
COMPUTE — SMALL, ON-NET
QUIETA handful of VMs on seriously over-specced metal. Every instance gets a real public v4 — I have a /23, may as well use it — plus v6, sitting on the same network as everything else here. For people already on-net, or who should be.
there are also GPUs. we don't talk about the GPUs.
COLOCATION — SYDNEY
3 SLOTS OPENYour hardware, our rack. Power, transit and addresses included. Remote hands by arrangement, which is to say: by asking nicely.
TRANSIT & L2 — FOR OPERATORS
BY ARRANGEMENTTransit seats and layer-2 handoffs for small operators and serious hobbyist ASNs, in-rack or via cross-connect. Talk to me about what you're announcing.
DOMAINS — FOR PEOPLE ALREADY HERE
QUIETWholesale cost plus a flat four dollars a year. No upsells, no renewal ambushes, no "premium DNS" bullshit. Mostly so your everything lives in one place.
HOW TO GET IN
No signup form. Email nick@theitdept.au — or SMS / WhatsApp 0448 379 418 — and tell me what you run. If it fits, you're in. If it doesn't, I'll probably still answer your networking question, because I can't help myself.
* prices are straw-man v0.1 — argue with me.