[Cialug] OT: Qwest and Mediacom Internet Service Advice

[Dave Hala Jr]

Actually, I don't run servers from home.  I do my development work from
home and access my servers from my home office. I believe there are
couple of others on this list that do the same.

I'd have to have to some type of redundant connection and a service
guarantee, as well as more bandwidth, before I would have servers here
at home. I already have the backup power and an underground concrete
bunker to house them in.

My server's are Colo'ed, and in my case it makes sense to Colo and
maintain a half dozen of my servers. Paying a $100 a month for a VM with
a generic config running on a stripped down bargain basement rack server
that I have no control over isn't gonna cut it.

I'm not anti-colo shop, I'm not anti-VM, I think they are good things.
Its just not well suited for what I'm doing.


:) Dave


On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 09:02 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> 
> > My DSL is running 1.5/640  on a good day. I could use the t-1 1.5mb
> > upstream bandwidth, and I'd switch to it for the increased reliability,
> > but it would quadruple my cost.
> >
> Assuming you're running servers, we recommend most folks on DSL not run
> 'revenue' servers, .. neither the upstream bandwidth nor the reliability
> supports a 24/7 server environment.
> 
> If you're limited to DSL, I would highly recommend signing with one of the
> hundred different COLO shops - most offer a dedicated server for about
> $100/mo, .. and with some of the new Cloud servers coming online (check
> out contegix.com here in St. Louis - you can get a VM on a production
> server with 100GB of bandwidth for $25/mo!) it actually doesn't make sense
> to run server or two in your own shop.
> 
> Of course, when you have 20+ on the racks, a couple of T1s can be easily
> justified.
> 
> 	Lee
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