AS37738 — HOSTOWEB - HOSTOWEB

Network type: hosting

AS37738 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,328 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

HOSTOWEB is operated by HOSTOWEB, a Moroccan web hosting and data center provider.

What it's used for

• The address space carries hosting infrastructure, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to hostoweb.com and netnames like ORG-PMS2-AFRINIC (PIXI MEDIA SARL) and ORG-HA4-AFRINIC (HOSTOWEB).
• With 3,328 IPv4 addresses announced across 3 prefixes and 41 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates a transit or peering-heavy role rather than a large access network, consistent with a hosting provider connecting to Tier 1 providers.
• Traffic from this AS consists of web hosting, dedicated servers, and cloud services for business clients in Morocco and internationally.

Notable

• Registrants include HOSTOWEB and PIXI MEDIA SARL, with the latter holding the largest prefix (154.70.200.0/21), suggesting a subsidiary or related entity managing part of the inventory.
• The address inventory is compact, consisting of three IPv4 prefixes and three IPv6 prefixes, all located in Morocco.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 102.210.212.0/22
• 102.222.212.0/24
• 154.70.200.0/21
• 2c0f:5400:2::/47
• 2c0f:5400:4::/47
• 2c0f:5f40::/48

Upstream networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS36925 MEDITELECOM
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS8551 Bezeq International Ltd.
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS4230 CLARO S.A.
• AS50629 LWLcom GmbH

Downstream networks

• AS136258 BrainStorm Network, Inc
• AS138627 Cato Networks, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS36925 MEDITELECOM
• AS136258 BrainStorm Network, Inc
• AS138627 Cato Networks, Inc.
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS33891 Core-Backbone GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS50629 LWLcom GmbH
• AS4230 CLARO S.A.
• AS20562 Broadband Hosting B.V.
• AS8551 Bezeq International Ltd.

Routing security

• RPKI: 17 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 26 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 94% of announcements registered; 23 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-DSIX, AS-HOSTOWEB, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-MDCDATACENTER-TRANSIT, AS-TRANSIT_CUSTOMERS, AS48793:AS-DECIX-MAD-CONNECTED, AS48793:AS-DECIX-MAD-RS, AS48793:AS-DECIX-MAD-RS-V6, AS56890:AS-DECIX-DUS-CONNECTED, AS56890:AS-DECIX-DUS-RS, AS56890:AS-DECIX-DUS-RS-V6.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Dusseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany
• DE-CIX Madrid — Madrid, Spain
• DreamServer InternetExchange — Bucharest, Romania