Hi Sean, Larry Talley here. Glad to hear from you! > -----Original Message----- > From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bdk > 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 > > ------------------------------------ > > The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org > This is the > > Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to > > juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the > > subject header. > ------------------------------------ > The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org > This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to > juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in > the subject header. > ------------------------------------ The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. 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