I don't really see what all this whining is about. My dad did not become a US citizen until after I graduated from high school and he had a resident alien card in his wallet next to his driver's license. His citizenship was delayed for a long time due to processing backlog. In that interim period though it didn't seem to be a big deal. Why is this hard?
Second this. If you're thinking about this now then it's too late. Forget all of these idiotic elaborate answers on how to spend time in the path of a wildfire "evacuate" the network as they're likely to get you killed. Wildfires are extremely dangerous and fickle things. You may think you have 30 minutes, but then the wind shifts slightly and you're dead. Grab some drives and run is pretty much what you're left with.
Aside from that, your insurance may cover equipment loss by fire but it may not cover damage caused when trying to save it. Next time colo the important stuff for redundancy. Colocated servers have an advantage over "cloud" of being removable from the colo to become instant infrastructure if the building does burn. At least automated offsite backups of important data so you can trigger it remotely and watch from a safe distance.
I'll amend that by adding "in my area" since there's no CIR from AT&T and ISPs that resell AT&T DSL where I live. I do understand the difference between "up to" ADSL and a circuit with a committed rate.
Things are different. AT&T seems to be quietly depreciating ADSL for U-verse here. In many places whenever they put in a VRAD previously supported faster ADSL speed packages mysteriously become unavailable. I had a 6Mbps package. U-verse came to the neighborhood. They told me it was no longer available (after I called about losing sync), disabled fastpath, and downgraded me to 3Mbps (max 2.7) package. There's also no ADSL2 from AT&T here.
I don't think that, I know that. It's what every DSL ISP has ever said - it's "up to" the advertised speed and unless it's dropping sync the first words out are "well sir, it's 'up to' the speed". If you're pushy you can get a tech to look at or "recondition" the line so you'll stop calling for a while but you're never guaranteed the full speed. Ultimately gave up on DSL even though I liked having my own CPE router, but my only options were U-verse or cable. I ended up with U-verse because there's a new VRAD next door.
Disclaimer: I am in the US, other countries probably handle things differently.
You can't really "lock in" anything. The provider is free to change the terms at any time in the future, it's just that you get 30 days to cancel without penalty if you decide you don't like the new terms.
I would imagine that the reason is that 21 inch racks are already a standard. They are widely used in telephony. Introducing a third standard (say 55 cm racks) would likely complicate things for little gain. Better to just call them 5334 mm racks.
3. LOOK VERY CLOSELY AT CHEAP RACKS A good rack will last you 10 years. A bad rack will last you 20 years and piss you off every time you go near it. Imagine mounting a full-depth POE switch to the front rail of a rack, then seeing that the back of the switch is about 2RU lower than the front, because the front vertical rail has bent under the weight. That's what happens when they make the vertical rails out of 1mm low tensile steel, not 2mm high tensile steel. Or, imagine having a server or router that has decided to put a RJ45 port on the front (usually an iLo port) and you find you have to either leave a whole RU free above the server to run the cat-5 cable back. Welcome to the joys of an APC rack, where the vertical rails are moulded to the edge of the rack.
What APC racks are you referring to? Even the cheapest NetShelter SX allows all vertical rails to be moved and they're thicker than 1mm. Or we have different definitions of cheap.
Same here in Nevada. They have a huge warehouse 25 miles up the road and yet no sales tax on purchases. Whenever I buy from any other company online that has any presence in Nevada they always charge me sales tax. Amazon has been the exception, not the rule. I do enjoy the free super saver next day shipping though.
I am always happy to see peanuts on Southwest since it means they haven't caved to the nut allergy crowd that gets up in arms whenever a product containing nuts makes it within 100 feet of them.
I have a Sprint phone so whenever I travel US 95 I just let it roam freely. As far as my experience goes I've never seen roaming charges when it locked on to a Verizon tower to maintain service (including light data usage) during the entire route between Reno and Vegas.
A TV station is on 476 - 482 MHz. How would someone else apply for a license on 476 - 482 MHz in the same place? (This is what I was aluding to when I said "you would never stick a whole bunch of TV transmitters across the same area broadcasting on the same frequency.")
As far as duplicated PSIPs go, I can pick up three instances of "channel 11" with my Samsung DTB-H260F and several others. One is always the nearby full power transmitter while the others are translators it was able to pick up long enough to learn them. However it doesn't lock in to one of them, it presents all of them and I end up deleting the others manually. Perhaps the newest tuners may only present one "channel", but there's a huge range of hardware that doesn't. The newest standalone tuner I have is a Dish TR-40 (picked up during the height of the coupon-eligible converter box program) that behaves the same way as the old Samsung with presenting multiple duplicate PSIPs.
I presume when they say "broadcast tower" that it's going to be doing TV and radio, not "look at our fancy cell phone tower". If you think a number of small towers would work for TV or radio broadcasts then you need to read up on how such things work. At least in the US, if a station is is licensed by the FCC to broadcast on UHF 15 then there's only one transmitter in the coverage area that does so at the licensed power, frequency, and tower coordinates. You would never stick a whole bunch of TV transmitters across the same area broadcasting on the same frequency.
Also see the Sutro Tower in San Fransisco where it was specifically built to aggregate almost everyone to a single broadcast point (except NBC).
It doesn't sound like you're looking for the right thing. You probably don't want "hosting", but rather a VPS, dedicated server, or a colocation.
Or are we going to have to accept a price in the thousands per month to run this kind of site, with 'going viral' providing a significant risk to our pockets?"
Then get out of the mindset of paying per GB and get a 100 meg commit instead. Maybe even a 50 meg commit will serve you well depending on your needs, but either way it's a fixed pipe with a fixed bill that you don't ever have to worry about additional bandwidth charges on.
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You're supposed to call your consulate for assistance.
When did things change where non-citizens weren't required to have something like a resident alien card? Because they were before this.
Or is all of this alluding to the potential of requiring all citizens to carry proof of citizenship i.e. the passport card or passport itself?
I don't really see what all this whining is about. My dad did not become a US citizen until after I graduated from high school and he had a resident alien card in his wallet next to his driver's license. His citizenship was delayed for a long time due to processing backlog. In that interim period though it didn't seem to be a big deal. Why is this hard?
Too late for that now I suppose.
In lieu of that grab the drives and run.
Second this. If you're thinking about this now then it's too late. Forget all of these idiotic elaborate answers on how to spend time in the path of a wildfire "evacuate" the network as they're likely to get you killed. Wildfires are extremely dangerous and fickle things. You may think you have 30 minutes, but then the wind shifts slightly and you're dead. Grab some drives and run is pretty much what you're left with.
Aside from that, your insurance may cover equipment loss by fire but it may not cover damage caused when trying to save it. Next time colo the important stuff for redundancy. Colocated servers have an advantage over "cloud" of being removable from the colo to become instant infrastructure if the building does burn. At least automated offsite backups of important data so you can trigger it remotely and watch from a safe distance.
Get flood insurance?
KSC has a lot of wildlife. They thrive there due to minimal interference from humans (being a restricted area and all).
I'll amend that by adding "in my area" since there's no CIR from AT&T and ISPs that resell AT&T DSL where I live. I do understand the difference between "up to" ADSL and a circuit with a committed rate.
Where did I say I recommended cable? (I didn't.)
Things are different. AT&T seems to be quietly depreciating ADSL for U-verse here. In many places whenever they put in a VRAD previously supported faster ADSL speed packages mysteriously become unavailable. I had a 6Mbps package. U-verse came to the neighborhood. They told me it was no longer available (after I called about losing sync), disabled fastpath, and downgraded me to 3Mbps (max 2.7) package. There's also no ADSL2 from AT&T here.
You really think that?
I don't think that, I know that. It's what every DSL ISP has ever said - it's "up to" the advertised speed and unless it's dropping sync the first words out are "well sir, it's 'up to' the speed". If you're pushy you can get a tech to look at or "recondition" the line so you'll stop calling for a while but you're never guaranteed the full speed. Ultimately gave up on DSL even though I liked having my own CPE router, but my only options were U-verse or cable. I ended up with U-verse because there's a new VRAD next door.
Disclaimer: I am in the US, other countries probably handle things differently.
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If you did, then "up to" means anything in between. You'd be getting exactly what you're paying for as part of the "up to" modifier.
You can't really "lock in" anything. The provider is free to change the terms at any time in the future, it's just that you get 30 days to cancel without penalty if you decide you don't like the new terms.
I would imagine that the reason is that 21 inch racks are already a standard. They are widely used in telephony. Introducing a third standard (say 55 cm racks) would likely complicate things for little gain. Better to just call them 5334 mm racks.
The telcom rack standard is 23".
Because they called this one "open" and used a lot of green colors to imply its "greenness".
3. LOOK VERY CLOSELY AT CHEAP RACKS
A good rack will last you 10 years. A bad rack will last you 20 years and piss you off every time you go near it. Imagine mounting a full-depth POE switch to the front rail of a rack, then seeing that the back of the switch is about 2RU lower than the front, because the front vertical rail has bent under the weight. That's what happens when they make the vertical rails out of 1mm low tensile steel, not 2mm high tensile steel. Or, imagine having a server or router that has decided to put a RJ45 port on the front (usually an iLo port) and you find you have to either leave a whole RU free above the server to run the cat-5 cable back. Welcome to the joys of an APC rack, where the vertical rails are moulded to the edge of the rack.
What APC racks are you referring to? Even the cheapest NetShelter SX allows all vertical rails to be moved and they're thicker than 1mm. Or we have different definitions of cheap.
I guess we'll just have to start using the IANA TLD list (http://data.iana.org/TLD/) to check against.
Same here in Nevada. They have a huge warehouse 25 miles up the road and yet no sales tax on purchases. Whenever I buy from any other company online that has any presence in Nevada they always charge me sales tax. Amazon has been the exception, not the rule. I do enjoy the free super saver next day shipping though.
I am always happy to see peanuts on Southwest since it means they haven't caved to the nut allergy crowd that gets up in arms whenever a product containing nuts makes it within 100 feet of them.
I have a Sprint phone so whenever I travel US 95 I just let it roam freely. As far as my experience goes I've never seen roaming charges when it locked on to a Verizon tower to maintain service (including light data usage) during the entire route between Reno and Vegas.
I've long wanted to make a sign that says "Welcome to California - May Cause Cancer" and put it up under the California state line sign on I-80 West.
A TV station is on 476 - 482 MHz. How would someone else apply for a license on 476 - 482 MHz in the same place? (This is what I was aluding to when I said "you would never stick a whole bunch of TV transmitters across the same area broadcasting on the same frequency.")
As far as duplicated PSIPs go, I can pick up three instances of "channel 11" with my Samsung DTB-H260F and several others. One is always the nearby full power transmitter while the others are translators it was able to pick up long enough to learn them. However it doesn't lock in to one of them, it presents all of them and I end up deleting the others manually. Perhaps the newest tuners may only present one "channel", but there's a huge range of hardware that doesn't. The newest standalone tuner I have is a Dish TR-40 (picked up during the height of the coupon-eligible converter box program) that behaves the same way as the old Samsung with presenting multiple duplicate PSIPs.
I presume when they say "broadcast tower" that it's going to be doing TV and radio, not "look at our fancy cell phone tower". If you think a number of small towers would work for TV or radio broadcasts then you need to read up on how such things work. At least in the US, if a station is is licensed by the FCC to broadcast on UHF 15 then there's only one transmitter in the coverage area that does so at the licensed power, frequency, and tower coordinates. You would never stick a whole bunch of TV transmitters across the same area broadcasting on the same frequency.
Also see the Sutro Tower in San Fransisco where it was specifically built to aggregate almost everyone to a single broadcast point (except NBC).
Imaginary currency is not safe.
Imaginary servers with backdoors that override any security their admin tries to impose equally so.
It doesn't sound like you're looking for the right thing. You probably don't want "hosting", but rather a VPS, dedicated server, or a colocation.
Or are we going to have to accept a price in the thousands per month to run this kind of site, with 'going viral' providing a significant risk to our pockets?"
Then get out of the mindset of paying per GB and get a 100 meg commit instead. Maybe even a 50 meg commit will serve you well depending on your needs, but either way it's a fixed pipe with a fixed bill that you don't ever have to worry about additional bandwidth charges on.