RTP-area local music and culture

[Bryk <chscene AT bryk.com>]

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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