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