<quote who="david"> > 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?
1) Unreliable. Yes, everyone has amazing stories about how their ADSL2+ was up for four years (!) until their cat peed on the router and caused a black out in the whole neighbourhood for twelve hours, but I'd rather trust a box in a reasonable DC. Hard to trip over your own cables in the USA. ;-) 2) Traffic. Why pay for traffic? Particularly at ADSL rates? Yowch. 3) Bandwidth. I have ~2mbit upstream with ADSL2+ and Annex M, and I wouldn't host anything approaching 'real' on that. Most people have 128-512kbit. At some point, you're going to want to peg your bandwidth, or a web client is going to (Google spider! download video!) and one or both of you will not be happy. - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ "I don't want the world, I just want your half." - They Might Be Giants, Ana Ng -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
