AS9917 SIMPLECLOUD-AS-TW Li Jing Info Limited

AS9917 (SIMPLECLOUD-AS-TW) is held by Li-Jing Info Limited (立京資訊有限公司), a Taiwanese company trading as SimpleCloud. SimpleCloud sells SSD-backed cloud VPS hosting to developers, with plans differentiated by CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth and a web control panel — a small independent virtual-server provider rather than a telco or an access network.

What it's used for

Virtual-server hosting, and the routing evidence matches the product exactly. RIS sees a single IPv4 prefix, 157.20.108.0/23 (512 addresses), no IPv6 announced, and 6 observed BGP neighbours. A 512-address pool is enough to give every VPS a public IPv4 address and nothing more, which is the natural footprint of a boutique cloud provider. Six neighbours on that tiny inventory is again peering-rich for the size: PeeringDB shows the network on a 200M port at TPIX, the Taipei Internet Exchange, in the Chief LY Building, peering openly and using the exchange's route servers.

The reverse DNS is a clean, machine-generated template — 157-20-108-5.ipv4.as9917.net — with the ASN itself baked into the domain. That is a hosting provider's default PTR scheme: every address gets an auto-derived name so that customer VMs have working reverse DNS out of the box, and customers who care override it.

Notable

• PeeringDB self-classifies AS9917 as an "Enterprise" network, which undersells it; the public product is straightforwardly VPS hosting.
• IPv6 is registered in the PeeringDB record but no v6 prefix is actually seen in the routing table from this ASN.
• SimpleCloud shares its facility and exchange with other small Taipei networks, including [AS9915](https://asn.ipinfo.app/AS9915).