HostPapa, a rapidly growing Canadian-based web services company, appears to have acquired a significant portion of QuadraNet’s IPv4 address space, adding over 200,000 IPs to its expanding portfolio. This move further strengthens HostPapa’s position in the hosting and cloud infrastructure market, particularly as IPv4 scarcity continues to drive up demand and value.

QuadraNet, a long-established data center and IT infrastructure provider, was acquired by Edge Centres in 2024 as part of its strategic expansion into the North American market. With a flagship facility in downtown Los Angeles near One Wilshire and additional remote locations in New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, and Atlanta, QuadraNet has historically offered colocation, dedicated servers, and cloud hosting services. However, recent events suggest the company may be facing operational challenges.

Over the past several days, QuadraNet’s Los Angeles data center has been at least partially offline, frustrating customers and fueling discussions across hosting forums, including LowEndTalk where inquiring users are eager to understand what all of this means. As of January 31st, 2025, their official status page remains unchanged since January 28th, stating: “Thank you for your continued patience as we work through our maintenance in our Los Angeles facilities.” Additionally, users have reported recent outages in QuadraNet’s Chicago and Dallas locations, raising concerns about broader infrastructure stability.

Even on that other sleepy forum, there’s 19 pages of rage.

Looks like QuadraNet has only about 6,656-ish IPv4 remaining according to their ARIN profile.  Let’s do some back-of-the-envelope math: even if every customer got only 5 IPs (often typical for a dedicated server), that’s only space for 1,300 customers, and of course it doesn’t divide out quite that neatly.

Here’s what an ARIN search for ‘QuadraNet’ looks like as of January 31st, 2025:

Here is an example of the transfer that has taken place over the last few weeks:

This is quite a fall for QuadraNet, which has been a large player in the dedicated server space for over a decade.  I still remember their “buy 3 get 1 free” offer from a few years back.  However, their web site has been aging out toward oblivion: job postings from 2019, and an endorsement from the defunct HostMantis and long-dead Tragic Servers.

Datacenter down for days, IPs sold off… is QuadraNet fading to black? If you are a customer of QuadraNet are your services online? Have you experienced any interruptions or change of service quality recently? Let us know the comments or join the conversation at LowEndTalk where an active discussion about what all of this means is playing out.

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