On 17/02/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<quote who="Howard Lowndes">
> > At $30 a month? I think not :) It's no issue for EveryDNS (or a few
> > others), and the dirty background hacky ways like using two DynDNS sets
> > for name servers also works fine as the IP Doesn't change until you
> > reconnect on most DSL services. Situation seems fine to me.
>
> You're being ripped off. A static IP costs me $5 per month.
$0 per year - comes standard with the plan! [1]
That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode <www.linode.com>.
Or, for just a little more, get a real machine[1] with a bunch of
IPs, lots of bandwidth, and much better performance than a VM.[2]
#1 reason not to host at home: every now and then you'll have someone
sending you lots of traffic for one reason or another (slashdotting,
misconfigured mailers, spammers trawling their dictionaries[3]; this
can choke your link, and given the sad state of australian bandwidth,
potentially cost you money.
[1] http://www.hetzner.de
[2] Latency to Germany is sometimes quite a feature as well.
[3] Hosting in germany == german spam, which makes a nice change.
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