RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Hmm, I thought most of the Dreamhost screwyness was a couple of years 
ago. I haven't had trouble on my box in a long time, anyway. But they've 
got more than one datacenter & a lot of boxen in each one. They do seem 
like slackasses, though . . . they "accidentally" double- or 
triple-billed people for their hosting accounts in January. They 
immediately realized it and reversed the charges, but still. Their 
monthly newsletter always contains some kind of "here's how we fucked up 
this month, har har" tidbit.

I find it kind of endearing, but then I'm a sysadmin in my dayjob, so . . .

GoDaddy are fucking evil, both in terms of the owner's psychosis, but 
more importantly because their support people are morons, even the smart 
ones. I wasted like 3 months trying to get to someone who could actually 
explain to me why their SMTP server was rejecting inbound messages . . . 
apparently some sort of anti-spam/anti-phishing thing they were doing 
which didn't like emails (such as my weekly stuff-to-do emails) that had 
more than X URLs in them. As if nobody ever sends a legitimate fucking 
email with an URL or two in it.

So, uh, what's the ratio of URL/text threshold? You don't know? Does 
anybody know? Um, OK, sure, fine, whatever, just let me enable/disable 
this service on a per-account basis. What, you mean that's not possible? 
Gee, thanks. Fuckwads.

Isn't there still some fool doing hosting/co-lo locally?

Ross

p.s. speaking of bizarre email situations, I think our friends at 
ibiblio have fixed the daily-digest feature. It has worked the past 
couple of days, anyway. If it works again today (after one final config 
tweak), then those of us who read via digest should get one around 11:05 
or so.

Note that this has nothing to do with the Yahoo thing, which is still 
plagueing not only us, but any academic/government institution in 
central NC that uses the IP address range that UNC is on. I'll keep you 
posted on that crap as I get updates.

Ben Donnelly wrote:
> I've had a RR fixed IP for a few years, it's been a bit of a struggle
> to keep them fowarding  ssh to MY box, as opposed to their router. But
> I long ago offloaded website hosting to Dreamhost.  Dreamhost has had
> a bunch of screwups in the last year, though , and GoDaddy is an
> excellent choice if you're into waterboarding Americas enemies. Any
> one happy with other options?
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> > How asymmetric is the throughput for RR business class? (I'm guessing
> >  they have different rates)
> >
> >  Honestly, speaking as someone who did his own hosting for too many years
> >  (I owned my own box, and had it colocated in a few different
> >  facilities), I have to say that I've never been happier than the day
> >  when I cut over my hosting to a provider who handles all the OS-level
> >  crap for me.
> >
> >  If you're an internet-security fiend who enjoys reading all the
> >  different security-risk lists and keeping up with patches & exploits,
> >  then by all means, host your own box. If you just want to develop
> >  applications, you're going to get higher throughput and a better uptime
> >  SLA for a lot less money from a dedicated hosting provider like
> >  Dreamhost or GoDaddy (not that I'd necessarily recommend GoDaddy, as
> >  they are fuckwads).
> >
> >  I mean, you're gonna pay dearly (>$100+/month, I'd guess) for a static
> >  IP with decent upstream bandwidth from RR or someone similar. You can
> >  get a wide range of hosting options (from simple space on a box, to a
> >  complete virtual host with root access, to your own personal server) for
> >  a monthly charge in that price-range, or well below it, depending on
> >  your needs.
> >
> >  Just my .02,
> >
> >  Ross
> >
> >
> >
> >  Kevin Slater wrote:
> >  > Road Runner will do this.  Business class.  So will any other ISP.
> >  >
> >  > k.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > On Feb 28, 2008, at 1:13 PM, bessebs AT hotmail.com wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> Hello All,
> >  >>
> >  >> Off topic question, but I figured someone might have an answer. I live
> >  >> in Chapel Hill andcurrently have Roadrunner. I am looking for a high
> >  >> speed service provider that will provide a static IP address so I can
> >  >> run a server and host my own site. Any suggestions?
> >  >>
> >  >> Thanks,
> >  >>
> >  >> Bruce
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