Options for hosting servers in my basement?

[Bruce Dawson]

I used to try this every few months, and just got frustrated. Comcast's
business rates are not reasonable for home servers, FiOS is not
available, and Fairpoint is useless. I ended up co-locating at a
favorable ISP (G4).

The only suggestion I can make is to beat on your
selectmen/alderpersons/<whatever> until you have some competition in
your area. However, the evidence I have makes me believe the local cable
companies are colluding and not competing. (Try to find a town in NH
that gives their residents the option of one or more cable/DSL providers.)

So until we get some good competition between the providers, NH will
remain a backwater in the internet arena.

--Bruce

On 07/02/2012 03:48 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I have a couple of web/mail/shell/etc. servers that are currently
> hosted `in the cloud', but which I'd really like to move
> to my basement if possible (with the caveat that I don't live/work
> at a college or an ISP...).
>
> Basically, I want:
>
>     * 2 or 3 static IP addresses.
>
>     * A fast enough *uplink* (consumer service is typically great
>       on download speeds but has lousy upload speeds);
>
>     * A reliable enough link--service can't be interrupted
>       on a weekly or even monthly basis, and interruptions can't
>       last for hours at a time. The consumer DSL subscription
>       I have right now completely fails this criterion.
>
>     * Something that won't empty my wallet (so far, I've made
>       one inquiry to an ISP about `business class' service,
>       and got a response of `what you really want is a T1
>       for $300/month'; that's a little heavy..., but
>       maybe someone here has a good story about becoming
>       their neighbours' ISP?).
>
> I neither need nor want mail hosting services, web hosting services,
> phone service, or anything like that.
>
> Assuming I have options other than `go live at a college or ISP',
> what are they? Or is home server-hosting a completely ridiculous idea
> in our modern world?
>
> My friends down in MA say, `get FIOS!'....
>