Summary

NovaCloud-Hosting is the brand under which Tech Tide Portugal Unipessoal LDA sells virtual and dedicated servers. The imprint page identifies the legal entity with unusual specificity: registered in Faro, Portugal, under company register 517354420 and VAT number PT517354420, with a registered address in Quarteira [[https://novacloud-hosting.com/imprint]]. The About page adds founding year 2023 and embeds schema.org organization data repeating the same legal name, VAT, founding date and AS209874 identifier [[https://novacloud-hosting.com/about]]. None of this is disputed; the company exists and is reachable in multiple registers.

The product surface is broad. The storefront lists categories including Virtual Servers, Premium VPS, High-End VPS NL, Minecraft Gameserver, IP-Transit, Private Storage Cloud, ARK:SE Server, Statuspage Hosting, Palworld Gameserver, gmod, Discord Bot, Webhosting and GTA:RP Server [[https://shop.novacloud-hosting.com/index.php]]. The About page claims service delivery from Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg and Eygelshoven [[https://novacloud-hosting.com/about]].

Against that breadth, the verifiable network record is narrower. AS209874 was assigned on 24 April 2025 according to reproductions of the RIPE aut-num [[https://ipgeolocation.io/browse/asn/AS209874]]. The routed footprint stands between 20 and 22 IPv4 prefixes and 16 and 17 IPv6 prefixes depending on which aggregator you read [[https://bgp.tools/as/209874]] [[https://ipgeolocation.io/browse/asn/AS209874]] [[https://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS209874&view=2.0]], and three prefixes were withdrawn in the past seven days per CIDR Report [[https://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS209874&view=2.0]]. That is a real network — routes are visible in the global table — but it is a young, small one.

The sharpest test of the gap between announcement and availability is the HA-CEPH line. The product page specifies AMD EPYC Genoa 9454 host systems, DDR5 ECC RAM, Ceph storage, a 99.9% annual SLA and a tier ladder from EPYC-HA 2-8GB to EPYC-HA 12-128GB — and then marks every plan 'Coming Soon' with pricing 'from TBA' [[https://novacloud-hosting.com/vps-ha-ceph]]. A fully specified product with no price and no order path is not yet a service. The storefront, the operator's own catalog snapshot, does not even list an HA-CEPH category among its navigation [[https://shop.novacloud-hosting.com/index.php]].

The network narrative shows the same pattern of self-inconsistency. The IP-transit page markets 'Over 1000 Peerings' and lists AS174 Cogent, AS6204 INTERKVM HOST SRL, AS6830 Liberty Global, AS2914 NTT, AS5511 Orange, AS6461 Zayo and AS15830 Equinix as network upstreams [[https://novacloud-hosting.com/ip-transit]]. The operator's own network microsite names three different upstreams — AS62403 PletX GmbH, AS49581 Ferdinand Zink and AS48314 IP-Projects GmbH & Co. KG — and two datacenters, Frankfurt NTT FRA1 and Eygelshoven SkyLink, omitting Nuremberg entirely [[https://as209874.net/]]. The registry-defined as-set AS209874:AS-Upstreams, maintained by novacloud-mnt and last modified 2026-02-26, lists members AS49581, AS203446 (SMARTNET LIMITED) and AS215787 (TELE90 Telecom GmbH) [[https://rtsak.com/en/as-macros/AS209874:AS-UPSTREAMS]], which matches the upstreams bgp.tools observes in the routing table [[https://bgp.tools/as/209874]]. The registry, not the marketing pages, is what the network actually exports.

On peering, the conflict is stark. ipregistry states that AS209874 does not have any direct peering agreements and reaches the internet only through transit [[https://ipregistry.co/AS209874]]. bgp.tools counts 9 peers, 3 upstreams and 6 downstreams [[https://bgp.tools/as/209874]]. Neither supports a figure of one thousand peerings.

One further observation belongs on the record: a cached copy of the RIPE aut-num shows an earlier object state, last-modified 2025-05-17, with an export line to AS203446 announcing AS209874:AS-SMARTNET, differing from the 2026-02-26 state seen elsewhere [[https://sitezilla.org/asn/209874]]. Registry objects for this network have changed measurably within its first year.

Two method boundaries qualify all of the above. First, direct retrieval of the RIPE Database web-UI query returned only a page shell with no RPSL object content; every RIPE-derived fact in this report therefore rests on third-party reproductions of RIPE output — ipgeolocation, bgp.tools, CIDR Report, rtsak and sitezilla — rather than on an authoritative first-hand registry read [[https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query?searchtext=AS209874]]. Second, the operator pages were inspected as provider-reported excerpts rather than verbatim full-page fetches, so product claims are attributed to the operator as self-reported. The gap documented here is between what the operator announces and what independent sources corroborate; it is an observable discrepancy, not a finding about intent.

For directory context, see the BTW entry for the target: entity directory entry.