FreeTransit is a personal project — maintained endlessly, out of one person's pocket, so the routing community can have free BGP transit. If it's useful to you, a sponsorship keeps the POPs running and the work going.
There's no SLA and there never will be. But the network is real, and so are its running costs.
FreeTransit isn't a company — it's a personal project, designed, written and operated by one person who believes free transit belongs to the community. There's no team, no funding round, no billing department.
Every POP is a real machine carrying real BGP. Servers, transit, IP space and the control plane all cost money each month — paid out of pocket so that peering with us stays $0.
Nights, weekends and the occasional 3 a.m. page. Keeping the network healthy, the filters fresh and the broker online is ongoing work. Sponsorship is what keeps the lights on and the coffee hot.
Sponsorship isn't profit — it's the difference between this project surviving and shutting down.
Sponsorship funds new POPs in new regions — shorter paths and more places to peer.
Transit commits and headroom so sessions stay fast even as the network grows.
RPKI validators, IRR mirrors, monitoring and the domains that tie it all together.
Every hour spent on features, fixes and answering peers is time a sponsor helps make possible.
If you operate — or have a port on — an Internet Exchange, you can contribute an IX-connected machine and turn it into a FreeTransit POP.
Any amount helps — one-off or monthly, on GitHub Sponsors. Thank you for keeping free transit alive.