On Wed, 15 May 2002, Joshua Cragun wrote:
> Are you sure you have investigated all of your options? Remember,
> with DSL, the phone company just provides the line. Although they'd love to
> be your ISP as well, you can always opt out. Try calling a bunch of smaller
> ISP's in your area and ask about having a static (or 5) IP over your DSL
> line. I bet you can find one you can talk into it.
> Have you investigated ISDN, Wireless, and Fractional T-1? Some of
> these are affordable for small business, and they all come with static IP
> connectivity.
> Why not co-locate? You provide they box, and it can be much cheaper
> than leasing a dedicated server. And before you sell out colocation and
> dedicated host, remember all the pluses that they offer: redundancy, power
> back-ups, higher latency, scalable bandwidth availability.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
lower latency! (just a nit)
> Finally, if you don't need all of the pluses above, and don't care
> about downtime and service outages (DSL is far from 99.9% reliability), why
> do you need a static IP? Most ISP's set their leases to indefinate - as long
> as the connection is on, your IP won't change. Write a script to update DNS
> everytime your connection is reset.
>
> Josh Cragun.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ebinc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE DSL IP ROBBERY
>
>
> Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can
> hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask?
> Im sorry if it seems like Im flipping out! but this DSL/CABLE COMPANY IP
> buck sucking is crazy
> at first there selling point was always on! no noise, the new wave what they
> really mean is pay but don't use!then pay some more people in general are
> stupid!they think MERGERS HAVE SCREWED US ALL WAKE UP
> Its only a matter of time before super big business feel they suckered
> enough surfers on line to start pricing us off line completely, I can see
> hosting fees being on the level of a mall one day and online product prices
> going through the roof
> and if your companies not worth millions your just like the rest of us too
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