Re: [TCLUG:14628] RE: Napster

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

You'll need to make sure your ISP allows hosting like this as well.  In
some cases this wouldn't be considered residential/personal DSL access
because you're hosting e-mail and websites.  

You can expect to pay about $29.95 / month to US-West for 256k DSL, and
between $20 and $50 / month to your ISP (depending on who, if they
charge for statics, if they charge for resell, etc) for the internet
access.  Setup is $70 to US-West, but is waived at least through the end
of march.  ISP's setup varies between free and $25 or $50.

From what I've seen so far, DSL is quite stable and if you're hosting a
handful of websites I wouldn't worry about the connection dropping.  

E-mail me off-list with your phone # and I can loop-qualify your line.

"Eric M. Hopper" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:08:26AM -0600, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> >
> > But let me get feedback, and youse guys answer this question as if I were
> > a newbie, which is pretty damn close to true in this case:
> >
> > Say a guy (or gal) wanted to start from square one, and buy a static IP
> > and internet access, so he could do his own teeny little e-mail acct and
> > web page server, under his own domain name.
> >
> > The person is question is a Linux user, and has between 4 and 6 machines
> > available, but isn't much of a networking person (though has plenty of
> > deep technical knowledge in other fields -- i.e., at least average
> > intelligence.)  So, the tinkering isn't the catch.
> >
> > What are the best options, as far as phone/access companies go?  Is this
> > person going to have to pay more for ISP access than someone running
> > Mac/M$?  (Why are companies allowed to discriminate against customers
> > based on *their* ignorance?)  How much a month / set up would this
> > run?
> 
>         Someone running Linux shouldn't have to pay more.  You should
> only need 1 static IP for what you want.  I would recommend DSL.
> 
>         In order to put your entire set of Linux boxes on the network
> with one static IP, you will need to research something called 'NAT', or
> Network Address Translation.
> 
>         In order to set up you e-mail server and web server, you will
> need to get qmail, and apache.
> 
>         For your own domain name, you may have to pay your ISP extra.
> In order to gain control over your domain name, you need to register two
> servers with Internic.  If you have a static IP, your mail and www
> server can be one of them, but the other one should be outside your
> network.
> 
> I hope that gives you something to start with,
> --
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