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ISPs for the Little Guy?

Posted by Cliff on from the getting-the-service-you-want dept.

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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  1. ISP's for WHO!?! by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't that racist calling for answers for ISP's for midgets?

    That's like Gnaa selling an ISP service for its' members (yuck).
    Yeah. It was a joke. Now laugh.

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  2. Powweb by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For web serving, try Powweb. You can't run your own web server nearly as well. It's $7.77 a month.

  3. Could be a scam, but . . . by base3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    . . . 1&1 hosting is claiming to offer 3 years of hosting free. Since TANSTAAFL, there must be a catch; I just haven't figured it out yet.

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  4. Go to a hosting provider. by isaac · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nearlyfreespeech.net, just to pick an example, charges $1 per gigabyte transferred plus $0.02/day for DNS service that includes email forwarding.

    You cannot host a site off your own internet connection as cheaply or robustly as a dedicated provider. I don't recommend hosting your own site unless you already need "fancy" service (multiple static IPs, fast upstream) for other reasons.

    -Isaac

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  5. Maybe some who read this will want to re-consider. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Sorry, I thought the point of my message would be clear. Someone wrote a long article about why people should not host their own web sites. It's scary to see all the reasons together. Unfortunately I'm working on something for a customer, and I don't have the link easily available.

    Powweb provides 650 email addresses.

    Powweb provides control over DNS. I have run programs I've written on a Powweb server. However, it is not clear to me if you could have complete control and run your own DNS server on their computer. You must be able to provide a program that runs under FreeBSD, the Powweb OS.

    When all is considered, it is a huge hassle to run your own server, if you want reliable operation and you aren't just using it for learning and testing. Do you want to get out of bed at 3 AM when someone finds some vulnerability that you didn't patch yet? If the answer is no, let the web hosting company do the updates.

    Maybe this reply is not of use to you, but I'm guessing that it will be of use to many that read this Slashdot article. Comments must be written for everyone, not just the original poster.

    The functionality and the security updates all cost only $7.77 a month. Ping times are low. 65 Gigs of transfer. One Gigabyte of storage.

    I don't have any connection with Powweb other than as a customer. Here is another of Powweb's customers, one of the largest sellers of contemporary art in the world, a company with the odd name of The Real Mother Goose.