BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1179474690.46179.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> INetU Managed Hosting Rolls Out Red Hat Linux 5 Support
>>
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>> | INetU Managed Hosting announced today that it has begun offering
>> | managed dedicated hosting on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
>> | operating system.
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>> 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.
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