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magnum Dec 25, 2001

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 ...

iwz Dec 27, 2001

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...

magnum Dec 28, 2001

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 mo...

iwz Dec 28, 2001

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...

magnum Dec 28, 2001

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...

iwz Dec 28, 2001

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...

magnum magnumOG 2001

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 :/

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