Re: [tlug] moving - ISP recommendations anyone?

[Nick Bikkal <nickbikkal@example.com>]

Scott,


What would it take to make a server at home? Is the learning curb steep?
I have a system that's on all day, fiber optic, etc.


Nick




scott wrote:

> Hi Tlug,
>
> My wife had a couple of babies so we gotta move to a bigger house. For
> the last 6 years I've been hosting slackisland.org in my kitchen using
> NTT ADSL on a single static IP from OCN. Anyway, as posted a long time
> ago to the TLUG, OCN won't allow reverse DNS resolution of this IP to
> resolve to slackisland.org, instead they resolve it to:
> p14046-ipadfx01maru.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp.
> which causes some outgoing mail to bounce. 
>
> I'm thinking, since I'm moving anyway, why not get a new ISP, and
> migrate from the prehistoric ADSL to hikari fiber. I'm paying a company
> to host my NS records so I don't think it will be a problem if the IP
> changes. Of course, it would probably be more cost effective to move the
> server out of my kitchen and just rent some rackspace, but I like doing
> everything myself, setting up the raid5 array, monitoring the
> temperature and logs, knowing that I alone have the root password (AFAIK
> lol!)...
>
> Any suggestions? Anybody on the list got a server at home with a static
> IP and a provider that will allow you to set the hostname accordingly? 
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> Cheers,
> Scott VanDusen
> Tokyo, soon to be in Komae! 
>
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