Are you sure you have investigated all of your options? Remember, with DSL, the phone company just provides the line. Although they'd love to be your ISP as well, you can always opt out. Try calling a bunch of smaller ISP's in your area and ask about having a static (or 5) IP over your DSL line. I bet you can find one you can talk into it. Have you investigated ISDN, Wireless, and Fractional T-1? Some of these are affordable for small business, and they all come with static IP connectivity. Why not co-locate? You provide they box, and it can be much cheaper than leasing a dedicated server. And before you sell out colocation and dedicated host, remember all the pluses that they offer: redundancy, power back-ups, higher latency, scalable bandwidth availability. Finally, if you don't need all of the pluses above, and don't care about downtime and service outages (DSL is far from 99.9% reliability), why do you need a static IP? Most ISP's set their leases to indefinate - as long as the connection is on, your IP won't change. Write a script to update DNS everytime your connection is reset.
Josh Cragun. -----Original Message----- From: ebinc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE DSL IP ROBBERY Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? Im sorry if it seems like Im flipping out! but this DSL/CABLE COMPANY IP buck sucking is crazy at first there selling point was always on! no noise, the new wave what they really mean is pay but don't use!then pay some more people in general are stupid!they think MERGERS HAVE SCREWED US ALL WAKE UP Its only a matter of time before super big business feel they suckered enough surfers on line to start pricing us off line completely, I can see hosting fees being on the level of a mall one day and online product prices going through the roof and if your companies not worth millions your just like the rest of us too ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: RE: IP GAMES FOR SUCKING BUCKS _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list