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In the US you can't really get a reliable network connection to your residence. The entire shift towards the cloud is in no small part due to crappy internet. T
by speedplane 9y ago
In the US you can't really get a reliable network connection to your residence. The entire shift towards the cloud is in no small part due to crappy internet. The large ISPs really missed the boat on this.
- brianwawok 9y agoThis is not at all true for me at least. I get very reliable internet, both at home and at my office. At my office I have static IPs and am allowed to host stuff.. Now I would not host my main customer site there. But dev servers? Beta servers? QA servers? Hey why not.. save some massive bills.
- speedplane 9y agoExactly... you won't host a main customer site at home. If ISPs were smarter, they would make this easier for you and provide the tools to make it extremely easy. ISPs could have been AWS or Azure, instead they preferred to be a flaky bundle of wires.
- Sohcahtoa82 9y agoDepends how reliable you need. I average probably a single 5 minute hiccup each month. That's 99.988% uptime. For someone wanting to run their WoW guild's voice chat server, or just a toy server, or a development/staging environment, that's plenty. But I mean, my home internet is only 35 mbps anyways via Frontier FIOS. I can get 150 mbps through Comcast, but I refuse to give that company a penny of my money. In either case, I'm not going to be running any major production servers at home anyways.
- speedplane 9y agoI have Time Warner, and experience about 10-15 minutes of downtime a week on my home wifi and once a year it'll go down for an entire evening. That's annoying, but fine for home wifi and maybe a hobby website, but you couldn't run a company like that.