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  • From: Bryk <chscene AT bryk.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Slightly OT - Static IP Address
  • Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:45:02 -0500

i've had really hit and miss with RR "Business Class" at work. Even though we pay over $100/month already, we regularly get sales calls asking us to upscale our service to "business class premium" or something like that, so they've clearly capped our throughput already. I've found my residential Earthlink-via-TimeWarnerCable service regularly has much higher throughput at off hours than alleged "Business Class..."
Plus our IP has changed a few times, seemingly arbitrarily, so I bet you there's yet another additional monthly charge for static IP.

i like dreamhost (despite the aforementioned fuckery in the past year) since they really do have a ridiculously great cost to feature ratio... the code monster plan is excellent when you prepay a year in advance. at the very least, dreamhost is my first WHP that hasn't gone out of business while i was on tour... so far. i hope they make enough money to stay in business, they do seem a little casual.

if you go with dreamhost (and dedicated hosting), please feel free to use my domain as your referral ;) their referral program is unconscionably generous.


On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:21 AM, grady wrote:

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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