On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:34:10PM -0700, Thad Van Ry wrote: > Okay, now that we all know the pluses and minuses of hosting a server > on your own. :) I have a different question aimed at those of you who > host your "hobby" website/e-mail servers at your house. I'm curious as > to what ISP you use. Also mode of connection. (i.e. DSL, T1 (at > home?), Wireless, or Cable) I'd also like to know what happens to your > e-mail when/if your internet connection drops off. Do you have > multiple mail exchange records at different places? Remember this is > about a hobby/family server. Not business servers. Not mission > critical stuff.
I use Comcast. DNS from zoneedit.com (free!) with a script to watch and auto-update when my IP changes. I really only want to run web-type services so I have zoneedit forward all mail for my domains to my comcast mail address. I don't have to run a mail server, and I don't have to give out my yucky @comcast.net address. I just have the MTA set the FROM: and only people who look at the headers even know I'm a comcast user (hangs head in shame). Zoneedit's web app is REALLY slow, but I haven't had any problems with their DNS or mail forwarding. And Comcast sucks for any kind of hosting (I skipped a lot of the last flamewar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H thread on hosting, so if this has already been said, just ignore me). But when your upstream speed gets used up, it completely kills your downstream. I have to limit bt downloads to 6KB/s upload, and I can't even surf the web if I'm scp'ing a file from home to work. FWIW, Barry Roberts .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
