On 2/17/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<quote who="david">
> 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. ;-)
I think Home/SOHO grade ADSL could be reasonable as one of several
links used. I wouldn't pick a DC with only one link, but for test
purposes where you want access to the box ADSL can be useful.
2) Traffic. Why pay for traffic? Particularly at ADSL rates? Yowch.
Free upload from any good ISP, and each upload only consumes ~1/10 in
download. Compared to servers in Australia, it's really not that bad
even for downstream.
3) Bandwidth. I have ~2mbit upstream with ADSL2+ and Annex M, and I wouldn't
host anything approaching 'real' on that.
I have a ~1.9M Annex M upstream, in Canberra. I wouldn't consider
hosting on my connection, Internode and all, however I'm toying with
the idea using the ADSL as a failover for non-critical stuff hosted on
a ~10-15/10-15 Netspeed Longreach connection (sorry, Canberra only).
I'll be testing one when they enable my area in the next few months.
(unmetered upload, good $/GB plans, low latency and I'm very close to
the tower :-D ).
I wouldn't host anything critical on it, but for most of my personal
stuff, I think it will do the job nicely and may even be a cost
effective backup for some critical hosting.
I agree with you that ADSL on it's own is not a good idea.
Ben
(Disclosure: I am an Internode reseller).
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