From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 15:47:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7B81065671; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:47:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4092C8FC15; Fri, 16 May 2008 15:47:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m4GFlFFx045077; Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m4GFlEZr045076; Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200805161547.m4GFlEZr045076@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, gary.jennejohn@freenet.de In-Reply-To: <20080516170003.1734cb29@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-arch User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:16 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Feature requests for open-source graphics (OT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:47:17 -0000 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Even more OT. Maybe we should redirect this to -chat? I set Reply-To accordingly. > Sounds like the good ol' US of A is totally fubar in this regard. Here > in Germany every fly-by-night DSL provider offers a domain name and home > page hosting because _everybody else_ does too! It's hard to come by a > static IP though. It's not hard, it's just expensive, depending on your ISP. For example, M-net (Bavaria) charges EUR 14.90 (~ USD 22) per Month for a static IP. Right now they have a special 50% offer, so it's only EUR 7.45 per month if you sign up with them now. On the other hand, for most private stuff a dynamic IP with something like dyndns service should be sufficient, I think. That's what i do. I'm not running any public services on my home machine, though, but the dyndns name enables me to ssh into it from somewhere else. Personally I decided to rent a root server for EUR 50 (from Hetzner) which includes a /29 with six static IPs. It's shared with three friends, so each of us pays only EUR 12,50 which is cheaper than a static IP with M-net, and it has a lot more bandwidth than my DSL box at home. Of course I replaced the Linux installation on the root server with FreeBSD. ;-) Best regards Oliver PS: I'm not affiliated with any of the above companies, and I don't benefit from mentioning them. I'm just a satisfied customer. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.