[juneau-lug] Re: Local hosting
- From: bdk <bdk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:14:50 -0900
It has been years James... ACS moved my wife and I up here to Los
Anchorage 2 summers ago as part of the whole SOA/ACS project, that went
defunct (by no virtue of me moving of course :) ), spent time as a Level
2 Internet Tech and now I work in the ACS NOC as an IP Engineer (Router
monkey/ Jr. Sys Admin).
When I sent my initial email to the list in reply, it got bounced
because a reverse didn't exist for my own server. I had to add a PTR
record last night so the 'freelist' would take my message. If you still
have a static, let me know if you would like a 'zuelow.net' PTR.
I know ACS has a tucows mirror so I'm asking the people that do the
setting up of that what it would take to start mirroring some Linux
distros. In previous conversations with some of the other engineers
co-lo'ing has come up and I remember them saying that real estate is
expensive so it has to be in the form of rack mounts; so I'm inquiring
about that too. At work we get to choose which OS we run. Some run
Windows, some run BSD, Slack, Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Mac. I ran
Debian initially, now we're going to shared workstations so default is
windows and now I'm looking to get Knoppix configured on on my USB
drive. There are a lot of *nix users at work so it would only seem
natural that we would do some mirroring.
This is what I've done to solve hosting issues for myself... Last summer
ACS started adding static IPs & routed networks, up to a /27 for free
with business DSL. Normally static IPs were $10 and a /30 was $10, /29
$20, /28 $50 and so on. Now with regular business DSL accounts you get
those for free. In order to get business DSL, I had to get a business
grade POTS line (Centrex) which costs a little more, you get more
features (distinctive rings, 7 digit call xfer, etc) but you end up
saving big with the addons. You also open up the possibility for
symmetric speeds with ADSL of 640/640, 768/768, 1024/1024, and the
regular 1280/320 is cheaper then on a residential. I just asked the
accountant and she said that we spend $72 incl taxes on the land line
and 1280/320. For free I have my own static IP and a /28, 14 IP routed
non-NAT network. Within that network I have private lan router, 2
web/email servers, a DNS server, Wifi and co-lo'ing 2 boxes for a
friend. We were running 640/640 for a while but needed to save some cash
so switched back down to 1280/320 a couple weeks ago.
I started this whole home hosting process because I was fed up with the
various shared hosting solutions on the Internet, lack of support and
over selling.. WAY TOO much over selling. I was spending $30 for resell
hosting that was only working 50% of the time. Now I'm spending $15 more
on my Internet package and I get to control EVERYTHING that goes on with
the boxes, connection, etc...
-Sean
james.zuelow@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bdk <bdk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, March 9, 2006 10:41 am
> Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Local hosting
>
>
>>Free pipe as in free DSL? Or free ethernet connectivity? When I worked
>>in Internet Tech Support for ACS there were some non-profit groups
>>thatwere comp'd services, not sure how much or what kind but it is
>>somethingthat I can look into for you guys. I may not live in
>>Juneau anymore but
>>as I idle through this list it does seem to feel closer. :)
>>
>>-Sean
>
>
>
> Sean, it's good to hear from you - it's literally been years!
>
> I think that the JLUG website is fairly well taken care of right now. I've
> still got the domain, Jamie is doing the webmaster duties, and Myron is
> hosting the box. So we've got the duties a little more spread out now. (And
> my wife isn't saying "what's THAT computer doing?" anymore.)
>
> I started the thread because I'm not happy with my current hosting provider -
> AIT. I picked them when I was home on leave over Christmas, my wife was
> dismantling my computer room, and they were the first hit on Google.
> Unfortunately I missed aitsucks.com, which describes many of the problems I'm
> having now. Such as having to log into my Army webmail just to send e-mail to
> the list since AIT wants to misconfigure mail.zuelow.net's reverse DNS for me.
>
> Now I've got time to move away from them, and I was looking for something
> closer to home. I'll probably give Chris a call, since I don't want to
> intrude on Myron's generosity too much.
>
> But then again if you can find a friendly face that we can talk to, it might
> give us options we haven't considered before AND that might help ACS out as
> well.
>
> Say, a local mirror of Debian, Fedora, etc. I know that I hit the Debian
> mirrors from home and at work quite often. If those bits hit a mirror here
> in Juneau it would mean ACS would only need to bring them up the pipe once.
> The LUG could manage the servers, and might even be able to come up with the
> hardware between us - so we'd just need power and a pipe.
>
> Wouldn't help GCI customers much though, but that's another battle.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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