Autonomous system
AS9678 HOSTINGINSIDE HostingInside LTD.
Hosting APNIC
Summary
HostingInside
hosting legacy
AS9678 (HOSTINGINSIDE-INTL) is held by HostingInside LTD, a Taichung-based Taiwanese hosting company selling VPS, dedicated servers and colocation. The provider advertises presence in several cities beyond Taiwan, and its routing inventory matches that claim rather than a single-country footprint.
What it's used for
This is a small multi-region hosting network. RIS sees 20 IPv4 prefixes carrying 5,120 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes, with 24 observed BGP neighbours. The neighbour count is the interesting number: two dozen peers against only twenty /24s means this network peers far more widely than its size would suggest, which is what a hosting provider that shows up at internet exchanges in several metros looks like. It is not buying transit at one door and reselling it.
The IPv4 inventory is entirely /24s, and they are drawn from more than one RIR at once: APNIC space (103.37.4.0/24, 103.98.73.0/24, 223.26.0.0/24, 203.66.151.0/24), RIPE space (2.58.240.0/24–2.58.243.0/24) and ARIN space (74.214.160.0/24, 74.214.161.0/24). Scattered single /24s across multiple registries is also the shape an address broker leaves, so it is worth being explicit about what separates this case: the reverse DNS across both the APNIC and the RIPE blocks resolves to HostingInside's own naming (151-66-203-5.hostinginside.com, 242-58-2-5.hostinginside.com), so the provider is operating the space itself, not warehousing it. One sampled address carries a customer-set name outside that pattern, as expected on server hosting.
Notable
- Expect server, VPS and colocation traffic from this AS, not consumer access.
- The company runs more than one ASN; this legacy number is not the whole of its network.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Taipei Internet Exchange (TPIX) | Taipei, Taiwan | 203.163.222.100 |
| Student & Technology United Internet Exchanges | Taipei, Taiwan | 103.158.187.123 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 10 downstream and 26 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TW | Taiwan, Province of China | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9678- Registry name
- HOSTINGINSIDE-INTL
- Abuse contact
- nokoya@hostinginside.com
- Registered
- 2020-06-19
- Last changed
- 2026-05-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 92% valid · 22 valid, 0 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 37 authorising AS9678
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 24 of 24 announcements
- Route objects
- 102 naming AS9678
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
1 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
2.58.242.74 | Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data | 2026-10-08 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere