Built a script to figure out what network (ASN) each Mastodon instance on the global list uses. This correlates pretty well to provider. Also went ahead and ran the script on the current Masto-verse as of a few minutes ago, so y'all have a reasonably up to date version of the data to play with.
https://gist.github.com/iansltx/c1c25c54832410e32bf78d663b7a6865
/cc @maiyannah @TheKinrar
Don't want to grep the JSON or do the lookups yourself? Here are some fun facts from https://gist.github.com/iansltx/c1c25c54832410e32bf78d663b7a6865:
121 on OVH
117 on Scaleway (or other Online.net properties)
82 on Digital Ocean
61 on AWS (or some provider on top of it, e.g. Heroku or Lightsail)
42 on Cloudflare (well, behind Cloudflare)
35 on Linode
31 on Hetzner
27 on SAKURA Internet
16 on Vultr (or other Choopa properties)
14 on Microsoft Azure
13 on Google Cloud
...and more :)
Ian Littman
CS