Security wouldn't be a problem, as we already run a firewall and are pretty security conscious when it comes to that stuff. But you're right about the performance. Our DSL tops out at like 10kB/s upload, which is way too slow to serve this site.
lol firewall just slows someone down by 15 seconds and adds a lil challenege :P 10k a sec? I get over a 100 up. What kinda dsl is that? I mean 56k is like 5k up. How much you get down? And 50$ a month is pretty steep i paid 40$ for 2 years but i probably dont have some of the extra stuff you got but im sure if i added some of it i would still pay a little less :/
15 seconds if you have all your ports open. We have no open ports coming in from the outside. ICMP is enabled, so you can ping it, but there's no other services running that you can connect to. $50 a month is the minimum you can get in our area now. It's either Verizon DSL, or DirecTVDSL. They're both the same price for new users. We went with the DirecTVDSL because they don't use PPoE, and they give you a static IP address, as well as allow you to run a web server/smtp server off of it. (We're not doing any of that yet, hence no open ports)
BTW, the reason we get slow speeds is because we're at the outer limit of distance from our Central Office. We couldn't even get DSL until now, and we've been waiting for like 3 years. So, we're very happy with our 560kb down/80kb up speeds (it's increased over the past few days), especially since we're saving over $60 a month on our ISDN bill, and we've about quadrupled our bandwidth. As technology improves, it's ery possible that we'll see even better speeds from our line, since there's no upload speed cap that I know of.
i meant you said 50$ for the website hosting costs, unless u mean 50$ for your isdn bill. With the dsl do they let you have a dns entry for your ip so u can by a domain name and tie it to it? And i thought Verizon gave static ip's out. I was lookin into direct dsl but didnt hear anything good about it over here though. And how come you went with isdn? its maybe double the speed from a 56k and they charge you by the minute with idsn last time i looked at it along time ago. I would think at least cable modems would be availiable over there, thought cable service was practically everywhere.
oh yeah, website costs are $50 a month. i've looked at other hosting services that are cheaper, but they don't offer me the features i need (free third level domain names, and multiple second level domains, among many other things).
our isdn bill was very expensive, and we had it simply for the slightly faster speed (64k or 128k, and yes, charged by the minute), the fast dial-up, and the 2 extra phone lines it gave us. we used it for about 3 or 4 years. Verizon uses PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet), so it's weird, you actually connect to them just like you would a normal dial-up connection, and they renew your IP address every 15 minutes or so. This means every 15 minutes or so you either lose your internet connection temporarily, or just get some major lag.
Even though we live in NJ, we have some Eastern PA cable company (Service Electric Cable) and they don't offer anything in our area. Of course, you travel 20 miles west and you get 1-way cable, and another 20 and you get 2 way cable. ANd if you go 5 miles East, you get CableVision, and sweet Optimum Online cable Internet. Oh well....
ahh yes forgot about the the other *.ezabel.com domains. I guess thats not to bad of a deal then. Heh i remember back in the day i had a dialup unlimited and a regional calling plan and was connected for 5 straight days. Almost like a dedicated connect cept it was 56k. Yeah i like my optonline for now cause its free but once i move out im gonna probably buy bussiness grade dsl so i can get multiple ip's and allowed to make dns entrys for them and such. PPPoe is stupid, no idea why they use that :/