The only reason I can see changing ISP's is one, the connection has a lot of issues, going down and such. And B, bandwidth performance. For me, I had Time Warner. Connection was always going down, and during peak times, it got really bad. I would load a few sites, some streaming music, and my lag time would go over 200ms. FiOS, stable as hell, best internet connection I have ever had. I also have a vm box on Rackspace, yes I could host my site and stuff from my home. But I have things running on there that I dont want on my home IP. And its a good playground to mess with stuff. A good thing it could be used for is VPN, DNS, SVN, stuff like that.
Just remember, when your downloading, your also uploading, TCP stuff, so your upload path might get filled pretty quick. -- Trevor Benedict On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Ragi Burhum <r...@burhum.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > I currently get Internet through my cable company (Astound in SF) where I > get 18MB down and 2MB up. Realistically speaking, I get 14MB down and 1.8MB > during peak hours. Believe it or not, my service has never been down - or at > least I have never noticed. I run syncing processes with my > Amazon-cloud-hosted servers every hour through cron on my Ubuntu home > server. I've never had a need to do anything remotely close to having to > flashing my router with VMs running Windows 3.1. I play games and stream > high definition content all the time on my PS3, XBOX 360, Wii, Google TV and > other Internet-enabled devices. I use Dropbox to sync data with my clients, > skype to do video conferencing with them and Facetime through my iPhone to > talk to my gf. Two of my development Android-based phones periodically grab > updated vectors of crowdsourced street data for the entire world through > wifi every week. I can ssh to most of my servers through dynamic DNS > services and whenever I am in Europe, I can use that functionality to stream > content to my hotel room. Whenever I am not at home, I use my Rovio ( > http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio/rovio) to move > around the house and check that everything is OK - no matter where I am in > the world. > > I do all of this for $45/month and no contract. > > Is there a valid, *reasonable*, argument why I should be looking at > datacenters or other ISP solutions? > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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