On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:34, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Eric Jensen wrote: > > For $150-200 a month you can get a 384kb/s line that is, > > according to them, perfect for web hosting. That just doesn't make > > sense to me. When most users now days have closer to 1.5mb DSL (at > > around $30-40 a month mind you) how could you support even 10 hits at a > > time and not get complaints about it being too slow? > > Eric Jensen
I have to agree with the goto a co-lo suggestions. We ran a rack of servers out of our office for about 2 years. The Internet connection was always reliable (T1) but we had a cooling problem (no need for a heater in winter, and A/C ran almost constantly during the summer ). On top of that, inspite of the 3 UPS we had, if the power went down for more than about 10 min, we went down, and I was frantically trying to get them shutdown before the batteries died. Also, if you want to be safe from ISPs going down, you have to either do some fancy DNS/Routing tricks to merge multiple IPs or get 8 or 16 Class Cs to multi-home it. Last October we looked at Co-lo at UVnet.net moved the servers and I sleep much better at night... multi-homed, multiple UPSs, Generator, multiple A/c units, Fire suppression, better security, and it costs less for us to have 2 racks + 1MB than it did for our T1 (Granted it was an expensive T1 from SLC to AF (long story)). The only down side is I have a 14 mile drive to rotate backup tapes. Take it for what it is worth. Peter .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
