From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 5 8:31:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9BB537BB6F for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 08:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22516; Fri, 5 May 2000 09:30:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25030; Fri, 5 May 2000 09:30:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 09:30:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005051530.JAA25030@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matt Heckaman Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , spork , FreeBSD-ISP Subject: Re: freebsd hosting. In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > : In correlation, I believe T1's are horridly expensive out West also, so > : DSL, even if there is a slight downtime, is much more cost-effective than > : a PTP or Frame circuit (this is my own guess, not based on any hard > : evidence). > > Depends on that business really. If you're in a line of work where any > downtime upsets a large group of customers, downs their web pages, and > so forth, it's far better to take the extra cost involved. I agree that > if you want to provide an office with a high bandwidth solution, DSL is > the way to go. I however do not trust it for production hosting on any > application that requires 24/7 uptime. Interestingly enough, I'm using DSL for 'home office' work, and I've got a script that measures reliability (pings, etc...) that has run for well over 4 months. In that time, I've had 15 seconds of down-time related to DSL, and 10 minutes of downtime related to my ISP re-configuring his Cisco 2-3 times which shutoff access in the middle of the night. I'd have to say I'm *very* pleased with DSL, howevever, it's a slower link than most 'commercial' companies would consider acceptable, 256/272K. But, it works great for my little operation. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message