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
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> A religious plug for Linux here:
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> http://leoweekly.com/?q=node/4698
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> 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.
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}.
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.
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