You may want to look more into hosting your website on your dsl. Besides the great possibilites of being hacked or ddos'ed dsl/cable dont host websites to well sometimes. Pages not being displayed ...
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 u...
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 :/