| Jeff Abrahamson on 23 Sep 2004 12:12:02 -0000 |
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:26:15PM -0400, Pat Regan wrote: > Anyway, I've got my own Debian machine with 64 meg of ram (turned > out to be enough, wasn't sure it would cut it), 3 gig of disk, and > 50 gig of transfer per month for $15/month. I added an extra IP for > 2 dollars to do my secondary DNS. I know I should have secondary on > another machine, but if this machine goes down I don't really care > if my dns doesn't resolv :p. Except that people would get host-not-responding errors instead of host-not-found. > I don't know what kind of services you are running, but I am running > apache+mod_perl, postgresql, sshd, pop3/smtp, mailman, and bind. I > tweaked postgres to not hog so much ram, and I actually ended up > with plenty to spare. > > I am currently hosting web and email for 4 domains, and they have all been > quite responsive. My uptime is approaching 78 days, which was probably > the day I ordered service. > > If you are interested, http://www.tektonic.net is the provider I ended up > choosing. Wow, that's cool. I wasn't aware I could get this so cheap. I've often wondered what I will do when I leave Philadelphia (probably in three years if this PhD thing keeps going well). A lot of markets make static IP and good bandwidth hard to find. For now I have DCA/Covad 1.5 down 384 up service so that I can X in from school to read mail. When I had the 640/128 service I got to find out that emacs under X repaints from left to right. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20 Attachment:
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