Gus Wirth wrote:
Michael O'Keefe wrote:
I'm moving my business to Kearny Villa Road in the coming months, and
Cox told me they don't have cable in that location, that it belongs to
TWC. TWC tells me they don't have cable to the building coz it's cost
prohibitive.
I currently have a 1.5Mb/768kb DSL service, but I was hoping to get
much more. So now I am looking for alternatives.
Though I prefer to be able to 'touch the HW', I'm not opposed to
either co-lo somewhere or a virtual machine setup somewhere. The only
problem with that is that I routinely (at least nightly) convert our
inventory management system from a Paradox DB on Windows to mySQL on
Linux so my website is up to date (as is possible) with what we have
in stock. I also run my own Postfix and BIND.
Yes, I could ZIP/scp or rsync the DB over to the colo/Xen machine and
then do the conversion (or just ship the .sql files - 6 of 1,
half-dozen of the other)
But for arguments sake, does anyone have any data solutions suggestions?
TWC referred me to SkyRiver (in Poway I think they said) that did LoS
data. I haven't looked into them yet.
You could make your Paradox database go live with a handy little
database connector called DBTCP <http://www.fastflow.it/dbtcp>. I have a
warehouse down in Otay Mesa using this with a Paradox database backend
that runs the warehouse operations and a PHP script with the connector
running on Apache and Linux. I got the Paradox ODBC connector from
WordPerfect Office 2002. If you do that there is no need to schlep data
from Paradox to MySQL, and a reasonably designed web site won't use up
too much bandwidth.
I don't use up "too much" bandwidth, though I wouldn't mind having that
problem !
At the moment, apache generates, on avg, 32kbps (so munin tells me)
It's the spikey lag that bothers me when ppl DL the large pictures of
the products, and my employees are trying to access vendor information
which is all hosted via HTTP now, rather that local CD's, like it used
to be.
munin tells me my eth0 does 90kbps on avg, with the addtion being SMTP
data (90% of it spam)
The other thing that bothers me is PacBell is too stupid to not import
their own IP addresses from RBL's and our IP got blocked (I don't know
why, they didn't tell us) and 1 day after getting it unblocked, becoz of
the nightly import, it got reblocked. I got fed up, so I route outgoing
SMTP through an SSH tunnel to get past their stupidity.
So I don't want PacBell on the premises either....
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