On 2/17/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL insane?
1) Unreliable. Yes, everyone has amazing stories about how their ADSL2+ was
up for four years (!) until their cat peed on the router and caused a black
out in the whole neighbourhood for twelve hou
On 17/02/07, James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That said if what you're hosting is a) Not mission critical and b) low
bandwidth, there is nothing to stop you doing it so long as you have a
static IP (dynamic just gets to be a major pain). Its a nice way to play
with different technologies
DaZZa wrote:
If 100% reliability is not a worry, then there's nothing wrong with it
- if I can't get into my Linux box from work, I either wait until I
get home and restart the link, or if it's really urgent I call the
missus and get her to web browse something - anything - to kickstart
the link
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:03:38PM +1100, DaZZa wrote:
> On 2/17/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >> That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode
> >.
> >
> >OK... I'll bite...
> >
> >WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 18:56 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 3) Bandwidth. I have ~2mbit upstream with ADSL2+ and Annex M, and I wouldn't
> host anything approaching 'real' on that. Most people have 128-512kbit. At
> some point, you're going to want to peg your bandwidth, or a web client is
> going to (G
> On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode .
>
> OK... I'll bite...
>
> WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL insane?
1) Unreliable. Yes, everyone has amazing stories about how their ADSL2+ was
up for four years (!) unt
On 17/02/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At $30 a month? I think not :) It's no issue for EveryDNS (or a few
> > others), and the dirty background hacky ways like using two DynDNS sets
> > for name servers also works fine as the IP Doesn't change until you
> > reconnect on most D
On 17/02/2007, at 6:03 PM, DaZZa wrote:
Consumer grade DSL services in Australia are notoriously unreliable.
Mine drops out at least once a day, despite my router being set to
"always on", and traffic requests from OUTSIDE can't re-establish the
link - there's got to be some interesting traff
On 2/17/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode .
OK... I'll bite...
WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL insane?
Consumer grade DSL services in Australia are notoriously unreliable
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode .
OK... I'll bite...
WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL insane?
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> Either their web site needs updating, or their offered distos:
>
> # Ubuntu 6.06 (-new-)
> # CentOS 4.0 (RHEL rebuild)
> # Fedora Core 2 (FC2)
> # Red Hat 9.0 (Shrike)
> # Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
> # Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo)
They probably haven't had much user demand for the older ones there. These
a
On 2/17/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're being ripped off. A static IP costs me $5 per month.
$0 per year - comes standard with the plan! [1]
That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode .
Yes, but Internode doesn't have an ADSL2+ DSLAM on my local exchange -
On Friday 16 February 2007 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been hosting my own domain(s) so long I had forgotten there was
> another way to do it. If you have a fixed IP and reasonably reliable
> connection it's pretty easy: BIND, Postfix, Apache, plus anything else
> you might want. For dom
> > At $30 a month? I think not :) It's no issue for EveryDNS (or a few
> > others), and the dirty background hacky ways like using two DynDNS sets
> > for name servers also works fine as the IP Doesn't change until you
> > reconnect on most DSL services. Situation seems fine to me.
>
> You're
Sam Lawrance wrote:
>
> On 17/02/2007, at 1:27 AM, Alexander Stanley wrote:
>
>> G'day guys,
>>
>> I'm actually doing a similar thing but I' m actually on a Dynamic IP
>> (iiNet). What you'll find is that there are nasty hacky ways to deal
>> with that (like DynDNS)... but if your IP cycles fast
On 17/02/2007, at 1:27 AM, Alexander Stanley wrote:
G'day guys,
I'm actually doing a similar thing but I' m actually on a Dynamic IP
(iiNet). What you'll find is that there are nasty hacky ways to deal
with that (like DynDNS)... but if your IP cycles fast it goes out
to the
corner and sulk
G'day guys,
I'm actually doing a similar thing but I' m actually on a Dynamic IP
(iiNet). What you'll find is that there are nasty hacky ways to deal
with that (like DynDNS)... but if your IP cycles fast it goes out to the
corner and sulks for a while, blocking you out and making you have to
send
I've been hosting my own domain(s) so long I had forgotten there was
another way to do it. If you have a fixed IP and reasonably reliable
connection it's pretty easy: BIND, Postfix, Apache, plus anything else
you might want. For domestic grade service, you can run all that on the
same box you use a
I have to switch ISPs soon. Currently my ISP handles my domain name hosting
and rego.
I can easily take care of the domain rego mysel and save $$.
I'm wondering about hosting my domain name on a linux box. I only use
the domain for email at the current time, so I doubt the DNS service
hosted loc
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