[juneau-lug] Re: Local hosting
- From: Talley family <talleys@xxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:27:15 -0900
Hi Sean, Larry Talley here. Glad to hear from you!
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> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:15 AM
> To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Local hosting
>
>
> 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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