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a new (multi)home?

I've recently become frustrated with my lack of bandwidth at home. The main issue is that I live far enough away from a CO that I'm instead serviced by a remote terminal on a DLC. The problem is, unlike at the CO, Speakeasy doesn't operate through the RT, since SBC owns it. This means that my only option for DSL service is through SBC Yahoo!. Since I'm within a mile of the RT, I can get very good bandwidth; the problem is, SBC Yahoo! won't sell me anything faster than 384k upstream. If I want faster upstream, I have to go to cable through RoadRunner—costing me about $200/mo, since I'd have to get a business package in order to get a static IP address.

Recently I did a little research, and it turns out that for $30/mo I can essentially rent hardware and bandwidth from, e.g., ServerPronto, and get root on my own Linux box housed at their colocation facility. Once I have this, it's as if it's my machine sitting in my house—vi /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade and I've got a machine running the same shit as positron on a 100Mbit connection with 256MB RAM, a 40 GB HDD, a 2 GHz AthlonXP, and 200 GB/mo (according to ifconfig, I've transferred a total of 65 GB TX+RX in the last 48 days, so I'm guessing this is plenty). Not quite the same computing power as my new baby, but certainly enough for what I'd have it doing.

If all of my math comes out right on this, I'm a DDNS server (on the colo machine, of course) away from not requiring a static IP at home, which means I can switch to RoadRunner sans static IP address with greater bandwidth and I'll be spending less each month than I am now for my crappy DSL.

Hmmm...

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