On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:03:38PM +1100, DaZZa wrote: > 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. I am with exetel, I have had 2 drops in the last 7 days. which pppd brought back up - this is on a openwrt box
> > 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 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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