[UFO Chicago] Shell hosting company(ies)?

[Brian Sobolak]

Larry Garfield said:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:42:19 +0100, Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:
> 
> >> Yes, I can run all this at home, assuming Comcrap didn't
> >> suck so much.
> > 
> > Yeah, the era of hosting your servers at home has sadly faded, thanks to
> > anemic upstream pipes on any affordable home connection.
> > 

> Did I not get the memo?  I run a home server just fine on Comcast.
> Granted its a private server (there's only like 2 users, I'm one of
> them), but it handles all of my mail/xmpp/file server needs just fine.
> I didn't know there was an era when running an actual public server on
> a home connection made sense.

I did from about 2002 - 2004 and was quite happy with it until the
speed was killing me.  I think SPAM started filling up the pipe.

Also, many ISPs were blocking mail sent from a DSL/cable modem.  So, I
stopped.

I too, now have a Linode.  It's nice.

brian