was: Granite Canyon [DOWN] as slave server

Jim Britain jbritain at home.com
Sun Sep 5 10:04:09 UTC 1999


On 3 Sep 1999 20:04:59 -0700, "Christopher S. Susi" <chris at susi.nu>
wrote:

>Before I go on, I Think I may have posted the message to the newsgroup was a
>litle off-topic.  If it was, I apologize.  If not ignore the past 32 words.
>
>Would I rely  on or use a free service for something mission or business
>critical, no never.  I wouldn't even use it if I expected a lot of hits.
>I'd just be happy knowing it was up an ok (90%+) percent of the time.  As
>well, I know it's free and I wouldn't want to take advantage of it.  I was
>even wondering if there is away I could donate a some cash because I know
>that indeed there are costs.
>
>My point was is that I dont expect these to be accessed often but I will end
>up paying through the nose ($10 a month) for a couple hundred bytes of disk
>space, 10 min of admin time (which could even be reduced by creating a user
>manegable interface), and minimal bandwidth.  If you have 5 domain names
>pointing to 1 address, thats $600 a year! DNS (IMHO) should be a given to
>web hosting, not another way to nickle and dime the consumer. It's like the
>banking industry who charge you $3 for the privalege of being allowed to
>kiss their ass.  Even $3-5 I could understand but $7.50-10.00? Get real.

And the T-1 connection is only $36,000-$48,000 a year!!


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