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Frankie Try

Founder & CEO, Tropical Hosting

I build thenetworkunderneath things.

I design and operate the infrastructure other people build on top of: routing, servers and the systems that keep them online.

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About

Icareaboutthepartsnobodysees.Routingtables,hypervisors,BGPsessions,andthequietsystemsthatkeepeverythingelseonline.

Systems, end to end. I'm a systems administrator and developer specialising in networking, cloud infrastructure and hosting platforms. I enjoy designing reliable, scalable systems and automating the boring parts of running them.

Founder of Tropical Hosting. I founded Tropical Hosting, where I build and manage hosting infrastructure end to end, including networking, virtualisation and the backend services that sit behind it. That means everything from BGP sessions and IP allocation to the dashboards customers actually click on.

Hard problems welcome. I enjoy solving difficult networking problems and building platforms that are reliable, fast and simple to use. Most of what I do sits below the surface, and I like it that way.

BGP
IPv4
IPv6
Linux
Virtualisation
Cloud Infrastructure
Datacentre Networking
Network Automation
High Availability
Web Development
Backend APIs
Cyber Security
Infrastructure as Code
Based in London, United Kingdom.

The network

From your screen
to AS219115.

  1. You
  2. Edge
  3. Peering
  4. AS219115
  5. Server

It starts with a request.

A packet leaves your device over IPv6 by default, falling back to IPv4 only when it has to.

Every layer. Hands on.

BGP

Multi-homed route policy & peering

Own ASN

AS219115

RIPE

LIR & resource management

IPv6

Native dual-stack everywhere

IPv4

Allocation & subnetting

WireGuard

Site-to-site & tunnelling

pfSense

Edge firewalling & routing

Juniper

Carrier-grade routing

MikroTik

RouterOS deployments

Linux Routing

FRR / iproute2

VXLAN

Overlay networking

VLANs

Segmentation & trunking

OSPF

Interior gateway routing

DNS

Authoritative & recursive

Reverse DNS

PTR delegation

Anycast

Distributed routing concepts

NAT

Source & destination NAT

Firewalls

Stateful & rule design

By the numbers

Quietly busy.

Years experience

0+

Projects shipped

0+

Users served

0k+

Requests processed

0M+

IPv6 native

0%

Autonomous System

AS219115

Projects

Things I've shipped. All live.

01 · InfrastructureLive

Tropical Hosting

A modern hosting provider offering VPS hosting, game servers, websites and networking solutions, built on infrastructure I designed and operate myself.

kvm-01
kvm-02
kvm-03
kvm-04
kvm-05
kvm-06
LinuxPythonDockerBGPIPv6
02 · NetworkingLive

TunnelTHAT

A lightweight reverse tunnelling platform allowing secure TCP and HTTP tunnels without complicated configuration. Point an agent at it and get a public endpoint.

$ tunnelthat http 3000

Connecting to edge… ok

Forwarding https://quiet-fox.tunnelthat.xyz

→ localhost:3000

PythonCLIReverse ProxyAuth
03 · ToolsLive

IPSquirrel

A public IP lookup service displaying IP information, ASN, ISP and geolocation in a clean, fast interface.

2001:db8::42

ASN

AS219115

Country

GB

Type

Hosting

rDNS

set

PythonFastAPIBGP data
04 · ToolsLive

QuadMegle

A real-time social platform built to connect people online in a simple, accessible interface.

WebRTCTypeScriptReal-time
05 · NetworkingLive

RealSpeedTest

A no-nonsense internet speed test measuring ping, download and upload performance with multi-connection testing.

942Mbps

NetworkingPerformanceCloudflare

Stack

The right tool. Every layer.

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptBashSQLHTMLCSSFastAPIFlaskNode.jsExpress
DockerLinuxUbuntuDebianProxmoxKVMQEMUGitGitHub ActionsNginxMariaDBRedisWireGuard
BGPIPv6IPv4DNSPowerDNSFRRoutingpfSenseJuniperMikroTikCloudflareDigitalOceanHetznerAWS (basic)

Programming

Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, SQL, HTML, CSS

Backend

FastAPI, Flask, Node.js, Express

Infrastructure

Docker, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Proxmox, KVM, QEMU, Git, GitHub Actions, Nginx, MariaDB, Redis, WireGuard

Networking

BGP, IPv6, IPv4, DNS, PowerDNS, FRRouting, pfSense, Juniper, MikroTik

Cloud

Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS (basic)

Journey

Built from scratch. Rack to routing table.

2022 to Present

Founder & CEO

Tropical Hosting

London, UK

2022

Started building

Began developing services and building Tropical Hosting.

Late 2025

Moved into networking

Started building and operating network infrastructure.

July 2026

Obtained own ASN

AS219115 registered with RIPE.

01Designed and built hosting infrastructure from scratch, from rack to routing table
02Operate an own Autonomous System, AS219115, with native IPv4 and IPv6 transit
03Manage BGP sessions and route policy across multiple upstream and peering relationships
04Deploy and maintain fleets of Linux servers for VPS, game and web hosting
05Designed VPS infrastructure on KVM/QEMU with automated provisioning
06Built TunnelTHAT, a reverse tunnelling platform for exposing services without complex configuration
07Built payment processing, customer support tooling and internal automation systems
08Run monitoring and alerting across the full stack: network, host and application

Contact

Let's build something reliable.

Hosting, networking, infrastructure or a hard problem you can't route around. My inbox is open.

me@frankietry.com
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