ISPs for the Little Guy?

jjshoe asks: "While access to the Internet varies greatly, depending on where you are in the USA, I recently went on the hunt for an ISP that provided me the ability to have a 'broadband' link to the Internet. I am looking for would be the ability to lease/rent static IP's, so I could host my own DNS/WWW/E-mail server. I was wondering what ISP fellow Slashdot readers use for themselves, as well as what they pay. I have gotten quotes for $50 a month for a single static IP on top of my monthly DSL fee. This seems slightly outrageous to me. Colocation is not an option as it generally runs $150 a month and does not provide me Internet access. I am open to any other ideas the community might have."

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Re:Maybe some who read this will want to re-consid

[jjshoe]

My home server has low ping times, over a terrabyte of storage, dual athlon 1.5's dedicated to me, the little guy. Not some corporate conglomeration getting pushed by some junky who is very offtopic.

The concept of this article is which isp allows you to use them like you should be able to. The internet is becoming more and more commercialized and i want to know what fellow nerds are doing to in-expensively make they're own nich. Not what commercialzed service you think i should dump more money into.