Running own servers

[Matt Staroscik]

>What's the most popular option? Is it buying a business DSL or T1
>service or is it to colocate it?  All of them are pricey. :(

You can get high quality residential service with a static IP for a lot 
less than what your cable company would charge for that one fixed IP. For 
example, I get 1.5/768 service from Speakeasy for $90/mo, with 2 fixed IPs. 
That isn't a ton of upstream, but it is enough to let me do my own web 
server, mail server, and private music stream so I can listen to all my 
tunes at work.

My web content draws over 40k pageviews a month... several gigs of data 
sent upstream to approx 10k unique users. It's not corporate scale but it's 
fine for a hobbyist.

Speakeasy's policy explicitly allows you to run your own servers with the 
exception of IRC. They are a really, really good ISP. (Check dslreports.com 
for more reviews and recommendations)

$90/mo (plus taxes) isn't chump change but I really enjoy running my own 
server so it is worth it to me. It is probably possible to co-lo for less, 
but this way I have complete control over everything. If I want to try 
something new, I just do it.

Before Speakeasy, I used an ATT cable modem. It was a dynamic IP but they 
only changed it on me once every 6 months, so I got by for quite a while. 
See if you can figure out what your lease time is before you get a new ISP. 
It might be good enough to get your feet wet.

Good luck and have fun!

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