It was thus said that the Great Bruce Lane once stated:
>
> I'm getting ready to create my own 'server farm' to place the
> bluefeathertech.com domain on. My ultimate goal is to be dependent on Qwest
> (or whoever my ISP ends up being in the long run) only for:
I would recomend Velotel (
http://www.velotel.com/) for the ISP portion.
For $65/month (high end, could be less) I get DSL, 5 static IP addresses,
and no restrictions on OS or services I can run from my network and their
customer service is outstanding (so far, I don't think I've talked to the
same person twice, but each person knew what I was talking about (and had
even heard of ISDN and the problems I would face in switching over from ISDN
to DSL in Bell South territory) and they keep good customer notes.
> --The DSL line
> --DNS support
Run your own. Velotel will even allow you to handle the reverse look ups
of your IP addresses (easy enough to set up on both sides). God, I sound
like a commercial for Velotel 8-)
Or better yet, arrange to use other DNS servers for your domain (register
those as authoritative name servers for your domain) and have them slave to
you. That way, you cut down on DNS traffic through your network, yet it's
easy to update the information on your side.
It's what I do for my own domain of conman.org.
> I want to take responsibility for everything else, including:
>
> --Two mail servers (primary and backup)
You only really need one, the backup will simply queue the mail until the
primary is back up. If you are really anal about getting email, arrange to
have a backup mail server on another network. Again, this is something I've
done for my own domain (heck, my web server (a 486SX-33 with a 17G harddrive
8-) is colocated on a separate network from my primary DNS servers and
backup email servers, which are separate from my home network. If you want
advice on setting any of this up, or more details about my network set up,
don't hesitate to ask me 8-)
-spc (Sounds like a fun project)
Received on Sat Dec 23 2000 - 02:15:44 GMT