Options for hosting servers in my basement?

[John Abreau]

Hosting things from home is either difficult or expensive these days.
I've got a slow, unreliable DSL connection at home, and what I like
to do is maintain my primary server at home but rsync it to a
colo server for access from outside. I run OpenVPN on the colo server
to enable me to ssh to my home network from outside, without
needing a live ssh port at home for attackers to probe.

Of course, I'm not running an email server at home. If I wanted to
do so, I'd set up dovecot at home and use imapsync to pull my
mail from an outside provider.


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> 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!'....
>
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