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As a user of Comcast Business Class for some hosting, it's more about what's available near you. I host some of servers in my garage, I like to manage them manu

by mmx 15y ago

As a user of Comcast Business Class for some hosting, it's more about what's available near you. I host some of servers in my garage, I like to manage them manually and Comcast is the only option in my area, I pay $110 for 10down & 2.5up, but some locations they have 100mb connections for that same price. What I'd like to know is why Comcast shut it down so I can either avoid this happening to me or drop comcast for a datacenter 110 miles away. Its difficult hosting a site at my current bandwidth anyways.

anigbrowl 15y ago
I'm sorry I suggested you hadn't paid your bill. There was so little information in the page that it sounded like an attempt to avoid embarrassment. Get something in writing, and get more info up there. Best of luck.
- dhimes 15y ago
  I don't think that's the OP.
  - anigbrowl 15y ago
    Oops.
bad_user 15y ago
Why manage servers manually? I mean I get it, you want control, but for simple web apps?
- breck 15y ago
  I used to host sites out of my closet for fun. I had a monitor that had tail running on my server log. There was something really cool about seeing hits, knowing that someone in another part of the world requested a file and it was sent from the hard drive in this very closet.
  - nakkiel 15y ago
    Get a VPS and you'll actually save a few bucks (no hardware, cheaper Comcast subscription). Run tail in screen. I think there's a Nodejs app on github that let you see in real time who's accessing your box and from where (it's an interactive map thing with websockets).
- chopsueyar 15y ago
  $$$ Even an old Pentium 4 w/ a couple gigs of RAM is probably all he needs.
  - bad_user 15y ago
    That's bollocks, as a good Internet line costs an arm and a leg and you're far better off renting a VPS. A micro-instance on EC2 for moderate traffic does wonders if properly optimized (i.e. Nginx, async behavior, CloudFront) and is costing me something like 15 USD per month (the total bill, which includes EBS, S3 and CF), which is cheaper than my home broadband line which is totally unusable for any kind of traffic (because it is ADSL, download is good but uploading sucks). I also moved my private Git repositories on it, from Github and I'm probably going to end my subscription with them. It is also configured as an email server with which I spammed my old high-school colleagues before our 10-years reunion :-)
    - chopsueyar 15y ago
      Not sure if you read the article, but he has a Comcast connection. Why pay extra, if what you have already works? Comcast business class w/ a fixed-ip (I have set up several to stream 720p HD surveillance cameras), has upload tiers in 2Mbps, 5Mbps, and 10Mbps...and it starts at $60/month. All he is serving is text, no images, video, or audio. Verizon Fios has 5Mbps, 25Mbps, and 35Mbps upload tiers. A Fios 35Mbps up and down connection is $125/mo. Not bad for UNLIMITED bandwidth. Anecdotal evidence: http://seesarasotalive.com/sarasota-webcams http://seesarasotalive.com/sarasota-webcams - moved from rackspace to Fios
      - dholowiski 15y ago
        I believe the evidence shows that it doesn't work. It's hard to beat the super-cheapness of an Amazon micro instance - I have two, and if you get a reserved instance it works out to around $9 a month.
        flexd 15y ago
        If you are lucky enough to live in a place with proper internet access it's great for hosting small projects and stuff like that. I have a server in my parents garage, they have a 30/30 (soon to be 60/60 for no increase in price) fibre connection with unlimited bandwidth and the ISP does not mind people hosting stuff. It's pretty awesome for hosting whatever I'm playing with at the moment. Without having to pay anyone besides perhaps parts of my parents powerbill since it's a hungry beast of a server >_<
- smackfu 15y ago
  I think it's usually because people who self-host have no real reason to keep up with the hosting marketplace. A year or two can just pass by, and the hosted offerings get much better and cheaper, but if you aren't shopping around, you have no idea.
prpon 15y ago
More than likely it is because of the bandwidth usage. It is really easy to host it using ec2 or rackspace but the bandwidth costs are gonna kill you if you are scraping HN. How often do you get data from HN?

by mmx 15y ago

anigbrowl 15y ago

I'm sorry I suggested you hadn't paid your bill. There was so little information in the page that it sounded like an attempt to avoid embarrassment. Get something in writing, and get more info up there. Best of luck.

dhimes 15y ago
I don't think that's the OP.
- anigbrowl 15y ago
  Oops.

bad_user 15y ago

Why manage servers manually? I mean I get it, you want control, but for simple web apps?

breck 15y ago
I used to host sites out of my closet for fun. I had a monitor that had tail running on my server log. There was something really cool about seeing hits, knowing that someone in another part of the world requested a file and it was sent from the hard drive in this very closet.
- nakkiel 15y ago
  Get a VPS and you'll actually save a few bucks (no hardware, cheaper Comcast subscription). Run tail in screen. I think there's a Nodejs app on github that let you see in real time who's accessing your box and from where (it's an interactive map thing with websockets).
chopsueyar 15y ago
$$$ Even an old Pentium 4 w/ a couple gigs of RAM is probably all he needs.
- bad_user 15y ago
  That's bollocks, as a good Internet line costs an arm and a leg and you're far better off renting a VPS. A micro-instance on EC2 for moderate traffic does wonders if properly optimized (i.e. Nginx, async behavior, CloudFront) and is costing me something like 15 USD per month (the total bill, which includes EBS, S3 and CF), which is cheaper than my home broadband line which is totally unusable for any kind of traffic (because it is ADSL, download is good but uploading sucks). I also moved my private Git repositories on it, from Github and I'm probably going to end my subscription with them. It is also configured as an email server with which I spammed my old high-school colleagues before our 10-years reunion :-)
  - chopsueyar 15y ago
    Not sure if you read the article, but he has a Comcast connection. Why pay extra, if what you have already works? Comcast business class w/ a fixed-ip (I have set up several to stream 720p HD surveillance cameras), has upload tiers in 2Mbps, 5Mbps, and 10Mbps...and it starts at $60/month. All he is serving is text, no images, video, or audio. Verizon Fios has 5Mbps, 25Mbps, and 35Mbps upload tiers. A Fios 35Mbps up and down connection is $125/mo. Not bad for UNLIMITED bandwidth. Anecdotal evidence: http://seesarasotalive.com/sarasota-webcams http://seesarasotalive.com/sarasota-webcams - moved from rackspace to Fios
    - dholowiski 15y ago
      I believe the evidence shows that it doesn't work. It's hard to beat the super-cheapness of an Amazon micro instance - I have two, and if you get a reserved instance it works out to around $9 a month.
      - flexd 15y ago
        If you are lucky enough to live in a place with proper internet access it's great for hosting small projects and stuff like that. I have a server in my parents garage, they have a 30/30 (soon to be 60/60 for no increase in price) fibre connection with unlimited bandwidth and the ISP does not mind people hosting stuff. It's pretty awesome for hosting whatever I'm playing with at the moment. Without having to pay anyone besides perhaps parts of my parents powerbill since it's a hungry beast of a server >_<
smackfu 15y ago
I think it's usually because people who self-host have no real reason to keep up with the hosting marketplace. A year or two can just pass by, and the hosted offerings get much better and cheaper, but if you aren't shopping around, you have no idea.

prpon 15y ago

More than likely it is because of the bandwidth usage. It is really easy to host it using ec2 or rackspace but the bandwidth costs are gonna kill you if you are scraping HN. How often do you get data from HN?