Jamie Hart wrote:
> BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:1179474690.46179.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> INetU Managed Hosting Rolls Out Red Hat Linux 5 Support
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | INetU Managed Hosting announced today that it has begun offering
>>> | managed dedicated hosting on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
>>> | operating system.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/5/emw526698.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> A religious plug for Linux here:
>>>
>>> http://leoweekly.com/?q=node/4698
>>>
>>> The press seems very happy to cite Dell as proof that Linux is indeed
>>> mainstream. No wonder Microsoft is so scared and aggressive.
>>
>> I was thinking of this type of thing over a few days.
>>
>> Do you remember when it became popular with many of us geek folk to
>> have a home server serving our web pages. Often through dial up so you
>> had to hope your mate had left his computer on and the line hadn't
>> gone down at the two hour limit so you could get at the site. But
>> still loads tried it.
>>
> I still run a webserver from home, mainly just for making stuff
> available for friends and family, and for testing.
>
> Which reminds me, I must update it, it's got updates of Roses progress
> when she had a knee operation last October.
>
>> But now when we have super-fast always on connections, it seems to
>> have lost popularity. It is understandable because hosting is so
>> cheap, but it is even cheaper if the machine is your own, plus of
>> cause you have control of modules, so not dependant on finding a host
>> that does {fill in what you want, php, rails, mono, Xforwarding etc}.
>>
> This is true, which is why I use mine for testing on the odd occasion
> that I do some web work.
>
>> I have noticed that some of the better home routers still come with a
>> dmz connection, then signing up to a dyndns if you don't have your own
>> domain already, so really the whole thing would be very easy. I wonder
>> what puts people off. My home I use a smoothwall and have been
>> thinking of putting a machine on the dmz except I can't for one reason
>> only.
>>
>> The reason is that I am on BT, that wouldn't be a problem except that
>> I pay for a 2M line that was rarely above 1M in practice. But when I
>> changed my BT router for one of my own I just couldn't get the login
>> part to work, which turned out to be a good thing, because it seems
>> that it is the login that throttles your connection to what ever limit
>> you pay for, without that login I still connect but get all the speed
>> that is available on my particular line, if I try the orriginal BT
>> router that still logs in, my speed goes down again. The only down
>> side is that my IP address changes about every 4 hours, not a problem
>> for VPN because home initiates the link, but not good for a home web
>> host.
>>
> How much are you paying BT? you can get an 8mb connection with 300gig a
> month off peak (30gig peak) for 20 a month.
Â17, BT told me I couldn't have 8M because it isn't available to my area.
But using the internet speed test since my lon in stopped working, I am
averaging 3M but did peak once at 6M (though that was very early morning).
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