Feature requests for open-source graphics (OT)

[Oliver Fromme]

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.

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