Stuart Bird wrote:
> Is there a meeting tomorrow or have got my days mixed up ?

Er, yes there must be! Thanks for the heads up, I'd forgotten it was
that close to the end of the month.

> While I am on, can anyone recommend a good ISP for home hosting. I
> would like a static IP, good up/down ratio, reasonably priced and most
> importantly a good support service who understand Linux.

Personally I'd avoid home hosting, unless there's a good reason for it.
Assuming you go for a decent "8Mbps" ADSL connection (I used the quotes
because you're unlikely to get more than 5-6Mbps in reality), then the
upload speed from your site (and therefore the total download bandwidth
from your site available to its visitors) is about 400k (and that'll
pretty much kill your connection for your own use).

This is factor of how ADSL works so shopping around won't gain you
anything. I can't remember what the upstream rates are for NTL but
they're not that different.

Of-course you could go to SDSL (where you get the same up and down) but
then you're talking a lot more cash - about £200/month I think. For that
you could get yourself a proper host and have plenty of beer money left
over.

> There must be one out there somewhere !

I don't think there is, sorry! At least not for comparable hosting
prices. And proper hosting has lots of other benefits (like not being
reliant on your ADSL line, your PC uptime, etc).

-- 
Mark Rogers
More Solutions Ltd :: 0845 45 89 555



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