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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:36:48PM -0500, James Miller wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:53:04PM +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> >
> > All that being said, there is much merit to your suggestion.
> > If I could find a provider that didn't require the use of a
> > web interface, I'd consider it.
>
> You might want to look at possibilities at sdf. They have
> various levels of service and quite alot of flexibility in
> what you can do. It's sort of a socialist ideology. It runs on
> BSD, btw. You won't get root priviledges by any means, but you
> can do quite alot on their system. The disk space you'll be
> allowed would never be near what you could get setting up your
> own personal ftp server. But honestly: 80GB for ftp hosting?
> What in the world would you use all that space for?

To make available all the 'tiny linux' software and docs that
exist (like mirroring SW4.0 and BL) and to provide personal accounts
for anyone interested in the field.

Errrrr.....The _other_  70GB?

Got me :-))

> I would say 10 GB would be way more than enough.

:-/

> Anyway, it looks like MetaARPA membership (US $36/yr) at sdf
> allows the largest allocation of disk space--currently 800MB.
> You get dynamic dns along with that, as well as ability to run
> cron jobs and some other priviledges. You know best what you
> need and want, but if you're looking for alternate options, sdf
> might be worth considering.

Thanks, James. I've looked into SDF and it appears to have
been stretched too thin. Lots of complaints about very slow
connections and down times.

I've played with a shell account there via telnet, and it is
excruciatingly slow: Hit a key and go have a beer while you wait
for the character to appear on the screen...

But I'll have another look. Thing is, when I tried to find out if
there was a dialup number for my area, I learned that I had to
_join_ first before they'd let you access that webpage.

That turned me off.

Lee

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