On July 2, 2005 11:16 am, Robert Connolly wrote: > Maybe someone knows a friendly isp who will adjust charges month to month > based on usage. Also, it would be a nice kick if the server was a legal > non-profit company, maybe some sort of charity, so that contributions could > be tax deductable (this would have to be reproduced in every country > involved, ie: canada and usa).
Well as for the "friendly ISP" part, it doesn't get friendlier than this. I run the network of the ISP myself. I don't get charged for the bandwidth as long as it stays within reasonable limits. Even if I do let my boss charge me for the bandwidth usage, the bill would be half of what I pay right now. Unfortunately I am tight on rack space so I can't justify putting up my own server without reimbursing the company back for taking up that (sometimes) precious physical space. At least with the LFS server's current 4U rack. If I can find a way to put the hardware in a 1U rackmount, there won't be an issue. I can squeeze it in anywhere and have LFS dedicated again. For the time being I think I'll still it can be done the way I proposed. I did read your email Jeremy and part of me agrees with you that it might be a bad thing. Looking at the history of the LFS server as a whole, there haven't been any issues (security or otherwise) that have come up. One or two incidents do come to mind but those were born out of negligence on my part which simply isn't an issue in this setup. All things considered I think it'll work out at least temporarily until I can setup a dedicated server in a smaller formfactor. But I don't think we want to wait that long until that can be made so and at the same time be close to where I live. You guys may at this point think I have control issues. Well, I freely admit that I do when it comes to this stuff. I rather pay the extra few bucks than have the past server issues revisit us when somebody pulls the plug on us. -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
