Re: [PLUG] DCAnet dropping DSL

[Malcolm <mjhlists-plug-20080906@liminalflux.net>]

On 2012-07-23 10:54 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
> > I gave up my home server about 4 years ago, once I realized I didn't
> > really need a home server. :-)
>
> I've been keeping mine for the most part, although the move towards
> mobile/cloud solutions has made me semi-migrate some stuff off of it.
> Right now my server receives most of my mail, but it just forwards it
> onto gmail/etc (yes, I know I can point my MX direct to Google - I
> prefer to be able to create addresses on a whim like the one I'm using
> here and know that all received mail is backed up).

Incidentally, gmail does support name extensions (which I also use all 
the time), though I believe it uses the + separator rather than the - 
one (I don't use gmail).

(It helps a lot with spam-blocks and anti-phishing - if the email isn't 
coming to me-bankextension@ it's not from my bank :-))

> For stuff like the odd web app it is a lot cheaper to just host my own
> solution and access it over FIOS than to run a VPS (Amazon or
> otherwise).  The TOS prohibits servers but Verizon doesn't care if
> once a month somebody looks at my photo album, and hosting 10GB of
> photos on a dedicated AWS server is just massive overkill.

If you have FIOS, probably it is. I'm on Verizon DSL (ever since I moved 
out of DCANet's provider area about 5 years ago), and I could drop my 
VPS cost (via tektonic) to $15/month if I didn't occasionally run things 
that use a chunk of memory there.

> If I were running a business I'd be much more likely to host it out of
> AWS/etc.  I do use S3 for my backups (just critical data, not
> everything on my hard drives - I'm paying more for it to be offsite
> than for storage per-se, and I use reduced redundancy storage to save
> money since the backup is already redundant).

My "off site" backup is an encrypted usb drive that sits in my desk draw 
at work (if I lose both house and office, I've got bigger issues than my 
backup). It's amazing the bandwith of putting a 500Gb drive in your 
pocket. :-)
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