[Wylug-discuss] ADSL migration

[James Holden]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:24AM +1200, Rik Wade wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:56, Smylers wrote:
> 
> > Why do you require the above things from your ISP?

Because it's too much bother to do it herself?

> I agree. I would probably advise going to someone like Bytemark
> (http://www.bytemark.co.uk) and getting a low-spec virtual Linux server on
> which to run your mail server (SMTP, IMAP/POP3) and Web server. Bytemark
> will provide primary and secondary DNS for your domains. Just point the
> domains to your virtual server's services.

Whilst this is what I do, I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. Many ISPs
have perfectly good mail/web hosting with extras like Webmail.

I run my own virtual server so I can run things the way I want. For
example, I want PHP5 and there aren't many ISPs that provide it yet.

> You're then free to choose whatever Internet access provider (i.e. your
> DSL provider) you like. Decoupling the two provides far more freedom in
> the long term. There is just the overhead of managing the cost and
> administration of a basic Linux server.

Yes, but so long as the ISP allows you to host your own domain on their
servers, you're OK.

If you own the domain name, it doesn't really matter who's servers
handle the traffic and a decent ISP will do a good job of this, taking
care of redundancy, spam filtering, security, hardware support and so on.

I don't think Anne needs the overhead of running her own server just so
the family can get their mail and put a few holiday snaps on the web.


James

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