On May 15, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Alex Aminoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/15/2014 2:22 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
>> cost effective for a home office
>
> You can get a T1 from Cogent for $400/mo. There's also the Cambridge
> Bandwidth Collective, which can get you a T1 for less than that. Support is
> on a do it yourself or wait for a volunteer to have time basis however at the
> CBC.
Just as an FYI: The Cambridge Bandwidth Consortium no longer offers T1s. We
do offer IPv4/IPv6 tunnels, and may have a small bit of 1U hosting available in
the near future.
> I suspect that the problem with the area on the price/quality curve in
> between $30/mo for a residential cable and $300/mo for a T1 with BGP is there
> is not that much demand, so no economies of scale, so relatively higher price
> and worse quality than you would expect if the curve was smooth.
T1s for data are old tech. When we were decommissioning the CBC T1s, we had
a lot of difficulty getting someone within Verizon to know how to process a T1
disconnect order. Verizon really doesn't seem to care about them any more.
> My suggestion: get 2 of the cheapest residential connections you can find and
> set up a router to switch between them as one or the other is down.
>
> You asked about static IPs however. That is thornier. You could probably rig
> up something with 2 bad providers as I suggested using dynamic DNS, but it
> seems to me you would be better off getting a real or virtual server in a
> data center, which these days is usually less than $100/mo, and then home
> connections purely for your own access out to the internet.
My suggestion is slightly different: Host the important stuff that needs
24x7 at someplace like Basespace or CBC, and then get business class at home.
A few of the people in the CBC have business class Comcast or FiOS connections,
and the CBC provides a tunnel (usually IPv4, but in theory it could be IPv6) to
their location, giving them a /28 or so of IPv4 space at home.
I used to host a lot of stuff at home, but honestly, even with a T1 and a cable
modem, it wasn't worth it. The important stuff I put someplace reliable, so
that I don't have to worry about the last mile nearly as much.
-Steve
(occasionally
representing the CBC here)
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