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Re: Broken Internet?
From: Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:57:12 -0500
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:09:14PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Currently the only ones that can do that are those that; 1. Are large enough to justify a /20 (begging the question of how they got that large). 2. Can afford their own datacenter.No. Co-lo your website and "intranet". Get two T1's that same provider via two different entry points/carriers to your office (if possible) and you should be about as rock solid you could expect for $2-3000/month or there abouts.Trust all of your server availability and corporate connectivity to a single ISP? The only point of failure you've (hopefully) eliminated is the local loop. And, if you depend on back-end servers to feed your coloed web servers (likely), that local loop is still essential. And now you're paying for rack space and it's a pain to do maintenance. Wonderful.
IPO a new network carrier and do leveraged buyouts of a couple backbones, then your small business can have the same facilities as any mega-corp. geez, decent network infrastucture costs a decent chunk of money and requires a decent amount of requisite know-how. if you don't have all of these, then you gotta do the best with what you can get. a friend of mine used to spout "Cheap, Fast, Good, pick two". -- [ Jim Mercer jim () pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ca ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ aka jim () reptiles org +1 416 410-5633 ]
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- Re: Broken Internet? Jim Mercer (Mar 15)
- Re: Broken Internet? Greg A. Woods (Mar 15)
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