FIOS was *excellent* when I lived in range for it, I'm very sad that I
no longer do. Very few outages, very impressive latency and bandwidth,
if you live in range for it, you really ought to seriously consider it.
Plus, screw time warner. They're terrible. I'd go w/ fios just to give
TW the finger.
My experience with FiOS has been the same. The service is infinitely
superior to what I got from TW in terms of uptime, latency, bandwidth/$,
and even the CSRs I've spoken to on occasion. Even if I move, I'll do
everything in my power to get high speed inet w/o TW.
As far as hosting, Linode has given me great service for a good price
for a couple years now. If you're not into $20 for a Linode, I'm sure
you could find some basic, inexpensive web/mail hosting solution. I
doubt that would save you much money, though. Since you're obviously
capable of running your own box, I'd recommend Linode.
/thor
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