Generally business lines (even at the same speed) are much more expensive than residential lines. That combined with the high reliability of a VPS (redundant power and ISPs, etc.) and the fact that I just don't want hardware in the house makes ~ $5/mon more than worth it. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Michael Torres wrote: > Just curious about the cost of the talked about vhosts. For me...i want > to think about having my own server. > Most of us are "techies" so i am sure we have above average speeds on our > personal services. > > Meaning that we are having an expense of internet every month anyways. > > Why not see if a isp will drop a business line into your home. > That would probably have the same if not more speed. With the business > service you get at least one ip. > > Then the cost of hardware (one time ) expense. > > To me that would probaby increase what i am paying now only about 10-20 a > month. And i would have more control over my system. > > The question would be would an isp drop a biz line into a residential home? > On Feb 19, 2014 10:39 AM, "Paul Mooring" wrote: > >> I use digital ocean as well and I'm happy with them, but if you go that >> route make sure you're aware of some of the security controversies: >> http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean-finds-itself-back-in-security-trouble/I'm pretty careful of what I actually store on my VPS there. >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> I actually use digital ocean, it's a vps, and they're definitely good >>> for the price. I was running a starbound and minecraft server on it, and >>> using it as a remote shell for things, never gave me any issue cept I >>> needed more memory to do both. I ended up have to install some scripts to >>> mitigate asses cracking against my instance, but afd and bfd worked great >>> on it. >>> >>> That was ubuntu server, but they had a lot of options. >>> >>> -mb >>> >>> >>> >>> On 02/18/2014 10:19 AM, Matt Graham wrote: >>> >>>> On 2014-02-18 09:55, keith smith wrote: >>>> >>>>> Digitalocean.com looks promising. Once you configure your VM is >>>>> there a control panel for configuring your Vhost & email accounts? Or >>>>> do you have to do it manually? >>>>> >>>> >>>> digitalocean looks like a VPS from their FAQ and articles on their >>>> site. As such, you'll have to set up your SMTP server, IMAP server, and >>>> apache yourself. There are articles on their site about setting all those >>>> things up using CentOS 6 and Ubuntu. If you want a "control panel" like >>>> cpanel, then digitalocean might not be the right hosting provider for you. >>>> >>>> digitalocean looks like it'd be slightly cheaper than rackspace for me >>>> running this little crow202.org site. They don't offer Gentoo as an >>>> install option though, which means I probably won't switch. >>>> >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul Mooring >> Operations Engineer >> Chef >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > -- Paul Mooring Operations Engineer Chef