Options for hosting servers in my basement?

Gerry Hull gerry at telosity.com
Mon Jul 9 12:02:44 EDT 2012


I have 5 virtual machines boxes on www.chicagovps.net.   They have a 1GB
Ram/10GB Disk/1TB traffic VPS for $5.35 a month, less than the cost of
electricity to run a server at home.
(Also, they have a 2GB/2TB xfer offering for $7.00 a month).  They have all
the popular distros and you have full control.  They are OpenVZ VMs
 Service has been rock solid -- site is huge colo with full power and
internet redundancy.
Check it out at
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-7month-2gb-openvz-vps-in-buffalo-ny-and-chicago-il-usa/

-Gerry

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!'....
>
> --
> "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."
>
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