[TriLUG] co-lo or at home?

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Sat Mar 23 14:10:44 EST 2002


On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 07:51, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:
> 1 - I had DSL installed yesterday. I may be able to upgrade to biz
> service with static IP instead of my current "home" class service.
> Sprint offers a reasonable price on this, but is hosting a domain in my
> house really that easy?
> 
I have been hosting my domain at home for almost a year now.
Except for a brief experiment with DSL, it's been on cable.
(I was actually 1000 feet to far for DSL but got hooked up anyway.)
Before that I had it at my place of business.  I have noticed
no difference in the amount of maintenance between the 
two setups. In fact, it's a bit easier here at home since
I can easily go over and look at the console if something
seems not quite right.

> 2 - If not at home, where's an inexpensive place to co-lo a box? I just
> need 2 IPs, an ethernet connection, and power. I obviously can't afford
> Inflow (unless a bunch of us want to get together and rent a
> rack/subnet)

Well, I looked at this when trying to decide if I should bring
my box home.  What I found (about a year ago or a little less)
was that getting a "dedicated server" was actually cheaper
than getting colocation, in a great many cases.  So, you might
try that.

As far as issuse like DNS, backup MX, etc... if you want, I
can run either secondary (or primary, if you want) DNS and
backup MX for you.  For other DNS services, I highly recommend
secondary.com.  If you only have one domain with just a few
records (like, under 100), they're free.  They're *much*
more reliable than granitecanyon.com (I've worked with them
too.).

My setup at home is that I have a static IP for my main server
and a dynamic IP for my house network (which is hooked to a
Netgear gateway router).  The netgear router automatically updates
a dyndns.com address with my latest address and my DNS has 
a cname for that dnydns address so I can refer to it with
my own domain.

One thing you might look into is how Mike and Lisa have set up
1000plus.com.  I believe they run it off a dynamic IP on a 
cable modem using similar techniques to what I described above.

Tanner
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