[CLUE-Tech] hosting-from-home bandwith recommendations

[Mike Miller]

I pay earthlink $22 a month to host my website (200mb, 2gb traffic) and
email, and have attbi at home.

I think if you look closely at the terms and conditions from attbi, they
don't EXPLICITLY forbid you from running a web server. What I end up
doing is: as stuff on my earthlink site ages, I move it to a webserver
at attbi, that way Earthlink has the bandwidth for new stuff (car
videos, kid pics for the family, etc.) and the older stuff is still
online at a lower bitrate.

I've been doing this for over a year and haven't heard from the gestapo.
I think they realise that enough traffic occurrs on port 80 that they
can't reject valid traffic, so they leave it alone and tell you vocally
that you can't do it.

Now, if you wanna distribute linux .iso's and Pr0n Spam, they may want
to have a talk with you. ;)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us 
> [mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us] On Behalf Of Jeffery Cann
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: [CLUE-Tech] hosting-from-home bandwith recommendations
> 
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I have been using AT&T Broadband cable internet for about 3 
> years.  I have 
> been happy with it.  Since it is a consumer product, it's 
> great for surfing, 
> but bad for hosting.  In fact, it's not allowed by AT&T.
> 
> When I first got AT&T, Qwest did not offer DSL in my 
> neighborhood, even though 
> I am two blocks from a switch building.  Now they can and I 
> am would like to 
> bring in a DSL line so I can run some hosting services from 
> my house.  Shared 
> hosting is not an option, given that I need control of the 
> server(s) and the 
> software I will run is not cheap to run on shared servers.  
> Colocation could 
> be an option, but I'm not sure it's my limited price range 
> and I don't have a 
> rack-mount server.
> 
> I like the Qwest DSL Pro series of products because I can 
> increase the 
> bandwidth up to 7 Mbps down / 1Mbps up.  At a minimum, I'll need 256k 
> upstream and a SLA.
> 
> So, I am looking for recommendations on ISPs, DSL providers.
> 
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