Hosting and DNS services

[W. Wayne Liauh]

I only have a very minimum need for a virtual hosting service (basically 
to store files and have a couple of personal e-mail addresses), there is 
no need, at least at the present time, to go through all the trouble of 
setting one.

Regarding "own colo-facility", my thought is, because it has a 
relatively low technology hurdle, there is not much business potential. 
 One option is to have a co-op type colo, and when it gets to a certain 
size and operational stability, then it can become commercial.  Another 
possibility is to set up a colo to serve non-profit organizations. Not 
that this is a noble thing to do, but there are available funds to build 
the facility and pay the operator(s).

BTW, you have quite an interesting cyber shop on sandust.com.  :-)  Just 
one quick question, does your automatic clock work in Hawaii (i.e., 
outside the continental 48)?  I am interested in getting one if it does.



Dusty wrote:

>We have been using www.flex.com as our virtual host for years for sandust.com.  I really like Flex and in 5 years we have only had a couple outages.  I don't know of any good facilities on the island.  You might check with Pihana, but I have no clue how expensive they are, but they have a descent facility.
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>Is there any reason you don't want to get Frame Relay, Comercial DSL or Cable, nice battery backup, and host it yourself?
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>Maybe I should put a raised floor in my barn (yes, I have a barn in Hawaii), A/C, nice battery back-up & generator, get a couple t-1's, and start my own colo-facility!!  What do you think?
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>Dusty
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>>Thanks for the info.  I am looking for a virtual host as well.  But do we 
>>know any good such hosts locally?  Thanks.
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>>On Thursday 06 September 2001 22:06, you wrote:
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>>>For my personal domain I ended up buying a "virtual host" account at
>>>Communitech.Net, and I have to admit it was a very good deal.   Very
>>>awesome reliability, SSH access, 300MB of web space, plenty of bandwidth,
>>>50 POP mail boxes, e-mail redirectors, e-mail autoresponders, virtual
>>>domains, and a very useful "control panel" to administrate most of the
>>>things I need... all for only $25 a month.  (Well, I think it may be $30 a
>>>month now, but when you sign up your monthly price will never go higher.)
>>>
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