Guess that makes two of us in this world that have the same intentions for our networks... As much as I HATE Qwaste for screwing me, if you can get DSL then their ISP service is fairly good. I've had the following from them for the past two and a half years: 640/256Kb DSL $20 Basic ISP from Qwaste $20 Home office package $35 (needed to get static subnet) 8 IP subnet (29bit) $15 ~Total $90/month (i think the prices are accurate) My domain is pointing to my DNS servers. I talked Qwaste into doing reverse delegation for DNS to my servers (they said they normally dont unless you have a business-class line). I run DNS and mail from my own servers with a friend who has a similar setup as my domain backup for mail and DNS. Until Qwaste screwed in my new apartment this service has been excellent (provided you can wait through the poor service when you need to make changes which is usually not often). Not sure about covad's prices and how they compete. Jason On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jason J wrote: > If I have a static IP and an always on connection that is basically half a T1, > why not take full advantage of it. Why not host my own mail and dns and other > services so I don't have to rely on an ISP. If for some reason mine should fail I > can always use the ISP's mail servers and DNS servers as a back up. This way I > don't have to pay any more charges and I have easy physical access to my server > if I want to make any hardware swaps. I have to have a server anyway, for > firewalling, MASQ'ing and VPN. I like having my family's email stored on family > property and not sitting on someone else's server where it can be read or deleted > at someone else's request. There are alot of other reasons that I wouldnt want to > share a colo server that I dont feel like typing out. > > Anyway, these comments do not answer my question and are just negative criticism > of my connection usage. I just want to know if anyone knows if I can trust Covad > to stay in business. And I also want to know if anyone has opinions on which > company is better, Covad or Qwest. > > Thank you all in advance for your help. > > > > Bob Tanner wrote: > > > Quoting Scott Dier (dieman at ringworld.org): > > > * Jason J <jasonj at innominatus.com> [001228 23:16]: > > > > I host several domains for myself and family members. > > > > Email accounts for those domains > > > > > > I really can't wait until the trend for this sort of dsl usage falls > > > away and back into groups of people grouping together to fund colocated > > > machines. It's really a shame on how many people get burned by all this > > > DSL instablity. Most ISP's dont just go around shutting off colocated > > > customers. :) > > > > > > Plus, theres much less complexity by taking the [Qwest,Covad,Rythms] > > > DSL part of the equation out. > > > > There is the whole "root-envy" thing on shared colocated boxes. Everyone just > > wants the power and they don't want to share. > > > > -- > > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > > http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >