19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
3:07 p.m.
As the old timers will no doubt recall, this is old news and they've heard
it before. Newer list members may benefit and I haven't posted this for a
while, so here goes. I try to post this about once a year.
Among other things, I still own an ISP based in St. Louis, MO. We are a
webhosting/colocation firm primarily but we also provide a lot of local
access (dialup, T1, T3, xDSL, etc). This is not an operation run out of my
basement, we have a real datacenter, FM220 suppression, biometric access
controls, 30min online room ups as well as 7.5gw of diesel power backup, and
some fairly serious bandwidth.
What does this mean for classicmp'ers... well, basically - if you need or
want, I will host any classicc computer related website or ftp site, free of
charge. I'll also provide DNS services, email, mailing lists, etc. free of
charge. Unlimited bandwidth (well, ok, there are some sanity checks if you
pull half the sonet connection bandwidth and start to interfere with my
paying customers). Why? Because it's something I can give back to the
community since I don't have the electronics advice to give the list of the
caliber of say.. Tony Duel :) You'd still maintain your site, it'd just be
on one of our servers.
Is there a catch? Yes. I will only provide free services for clearly classic
computer related material. Do NOT ask me to host a website for pictures of
your house, your dog, your company, etc... well.. unless you are prepared to
pay going market rates - then I'd be all ears. But for any classiccmp
related website, there is no charge, ever. It's (I think) a sweet deal,
because you'd get your site in a world class datacenter with some stellar
reliability - at no cost to you. Because I own the company, you don't have
to worry about some friend hosting your site and then suddenly saying 6
months later "dude, I got a new job, can't host that site).
If anyone has a need for this, just drop me a note off-list.
Jay West