C-l-a-s-s-y.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Sean wrote....
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I have Comcast business grade cable Internet to my home and I'm already
hosting my own personal site and sites for a few other folks; no data caps;
plenty of static IPs; not terribly slow; everything's protected with a
Liebert double-conversion UPS... not totally a commercial datacenter in
terms of available bandwidth or backup power capacity but nevertheless my
uptimes are decent.
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I have said many times in the past, but as new list members pop on they
are probably not aware of this.
I host the classiccmp server (which is not just the classiccmp mailing
list, but a growing truckload of user websites that are classiccmp related)
gratis. I do not host it on a "Comcast business grade cable internet"
connection (there's a contradiction in terms in and of itself...)
This is not something I "run out of my home". One of the companies that I
own is a hosting provider. We have a rather large-ish datacenter and I have
dedicated a set of resources to classiccmp.
Our bandwidth is many orders of magnitude greater than a "home or business
connection". Not to mention, it's managed bandwidth with load balanced
connections to multiple carriers. Our infrastructure is all xenserver
based, so spinning up new VM's is a mouseclick. We have quite a few SAN's
so storage is not a problem at all. Full HVAC monitoring & control, power
backups (oh, and we have two separate powerstations from Ameren UE ON
SITE). This infrastructure is professionally managed by my company 24x7.
Long story short... it's not a "home" connection.
More to the point, since I own the company, rest assured that hosting your
site here is not a "till the boss finds out" or "my wife accidentally
turned off the computer" type of situation.
As a result - I'm happy to host any website, ftp site, wiki, etc. etc.
that is classic computer related. As long as it meets that criteria, you
can host your site with us for no charge.
Best,
J