On 2/17/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode <www.linode.com>.
OK... I'll bite...
WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL insane?
Consumer grade DSL services in Australia are notoriously unreliable.
Mine drops out at least once a day, despite my router being set to
"always on", and traffic requests from OUTSIDE can't re-establish the
link - there's got to be some interesting traffic from inside to force
PPP to come up again.
If 100% reliability is not a worry, then there's nothing wrong with it
- if I can't get into my Linux box from work, I either wait until I
get home and restart the link, or if it's really urgent I call the
missus and get her to web browse something - anything - to kickstart
the link again.
Commercial grade DSL is another story. I run a remote site across a
commercial grade sDSL service with almost 100% uptime - I think the
link has gone down twice in the last 12 months, and one of those times
was my fault.
DaZZa
DaZZa
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