Re: [TCLUG:14628] RE: Napster

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> 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.  

Maybe that's what USWest was trying to tell me.  But, I didn't mention
anything about hosting.  I just said I wanted to hook up one computer that
happened to be running Linux, and they said that I wasn't normal and
should pay more.

> 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.

So, monthly expense is $50 - $80 to have a spigot what is your own?

> >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.  

What are you suggesting?  How do you link your own host / domain name to
your computer then?  Do you get set up, see what your address is, and then
manually get that put into a DNS somewhere?

I'm going to go off to RTFM, but would someone be kind enough to say in 25
words or less how you get a link established at a DNS?

Thanks,

Phil M

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