Mission and values
Squid IP Hosting builds open Internet infrastructure to expand access and opportunity for all in the age of AI.
Wholesale, deliberately
Squid IP Hosting sells connectivity and compute wholesale. We buy capacity at scale, operate it as one network, and resell it to carriers, hosting providers, content platforms, and the partners who serve them.
That focus is a choice. We do not run a retail product, a self-service portal, or a shopping cart, because the customers we serve buy capacity on contract and expect to talk to an engineer before they commit. It means we carry fewer customers than a retail provider of our size would, and know each of them considerably better.
It also means we say no more often than a retail provider does. If we cannot deliver what a prospect needs in the market they need it, we say so rather than sell them something adjacent.
Values, in the sense of decisions we actually make
Values are only worth publishing if they rule something out. Each of these has cost us revenue at some point, which is roughly the test of whether it is real.
Reliability before novelty
Infrastructure is judged on the days it fails, not the days it works. We deploy proven equipment and mature protocols, and we would rather decline a request than accept one we cannot sustain.
Commercial transparency
Quotes state the commitment, the burst rate, the term, and what happens at renewal. We do not obscure pricing behind conditions that only surface on the first invoice.
Security as an operating discipline
Route origin validation, least-privilege access to network devices, and a published abuse process. Security is a set of daily practices, not a badge on a marketing page.
Partnership over transaction
Wholesale relationships last for years and depend on both sides being straight about capacity, timelines, and constraints. We tell customers what we can actually deliver and by when.
Engineers answer the phone
Escalations reach people who can read a BGP table and change a router configuration, not a queue that reads from a script.
Neutrality by design
We are carrier-neutral and facility-neutral. Blends are built from the routes that perform best for a given customer, not from whichever upstream is cheapest that quarter.
The commitments that constrain us
We do not claim certifications we do not hold
Our security and compliance page states plainly what is in place and what is not. Where an audit has not been completed, it says so rather than implying otherwise.
We do not name customers without permission
You will not find a wall of logos on this site. Where a customer is willing to act as a reference, we will introduce you to them directly instead.
We do not quote capacity we cannot deliver
Availability is confirmed with the facility and the carrier before a quote is issued, which is why quotes take a day or two rather than arriving instantly.
We do not serve the categories in our AUP
Some categories are refused outright regardless of what they are willing to pay, and are listed explicitly in our acceptable use policy.
Talk to the people who run the network
Commercial conversations here involve the engineers who will actually deliver the service. Tell us what you need and we will tell you plainly whether we can do it.