That's an option I will consider as well. However the bandwidth for the
base business class is less than the residential. Also going with a VPS
provider, it seems that the hardware is automatically upgraded over time,
where using business class I'd need my own hardware.

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:34 PM Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:

> I don't know if this is an option for you, but Comcast Business will
> happily sell you bandwidth, give you static IPs and allow you to run your
> own servers. It's not that much more expensive than non-business and
> actually has a support department that knows what they're doing.
>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018, Jon Schewe wrote:
>
> > I've been hosting a server running mail, website, photo gallery, shell
> > access, as a VM with a friend's business for some time. Things are
> changing
> > and I need to find a new place to host the "server".  15 years ago I
> would
> > have had a physical server co-located at an ISP.  These days having a
> > virtual server seems the way to go.
> >
> > I've started looking at Amazon, Linode and Digital Ocean. It looks like
> > Amazon and Digital Ocean are the best deal, but I'd like to hear from
> > others. Note that I'm not looking at a site like BlueHost or other web
> > hosting companies because I would like to maintain shell access and be
> able
> > to run long running processes like Jenkins.
> >
> > Does anyone here have experience with a for this kind of hosting? Do you
> > have a recommendation?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Jon
> >
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