PBW Down? - Back up!

[Slynky]

Originally posted by georgig:

no i think you just want your butt kicked faster :-P

p.s. this is k.o.t.h.[/QB]

Hey, I'd even play against Asmala now!

[geoschmo]

I believe the local cable company has a business option with a static IP as well, but was pretty ridiculously priced for our needs.

I am comitted to getting this issue resolved with the current DSL provider, however we are looking at some alternative options to make sure that long term outages like this don't occur in the future. I am sorry for the inconveinence. Hopefully it won't happen again but I am doing what I can to learn from it.

Geoschmo

[Slynky]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I believe the local cable company has a business option with a static IP as well, but was pretty ridiculously priced for our needs.

I am comitted to getting this issue resolved with the current DSL provider, however we are looking at some alternative options to make sure that long term outages like this don't occur in the future. I am sorry for the inconveinence. Hopefully it won't happen again but I am doing what I can to learn from it.

Geoschmo

Well, as I said, I didn't know what a commercial cable account might cost...I was guessing (hoping) that it might only cost $10 or $15 more per month (our consumer connection costs $34.95 per month).

Guess we'll keep out fingers crossed.

[geoschmo]

Typically business accounts are on the order of 3 to 4 times more expensive then consumer accounts. Which sucks pretty much cause you aren't getting all that much more with them.

[Suicide Junkie]

What about just using a router to hold your IP?
The only thing that would change your IP with a router would be a power failure or tomfoolery by the ISP.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
What about just using a router to hold your IP?
The only thing that would change your IP with a router would be a power failure or tomfoolery by the ISP.

True, but that's a major inoconveinence for a website. The main reason though I wont do that is most ISP's have specific rules against persistant web sites running on a dynamic IP. I am sure you can give me many examples of people doing it and getting away with it but I think it's better having it running legit to worrying all the time if the ISP is gonna catch me running a game server and shut me down.

Geoschmo

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Typically business accounts are on the order of 3 to 4 times more expensive then consumer accounts. Which sucks pretty much cause you aren't getting all that much more with them.

Here it is per month; $40 for home service. $100 for business, but no outbound http or ftp allowed, $200 for server use with semi static IP.

I just use a parked domain now and forward it to my IP address. If it changes, there is a lag while DNS populates, but usually less than a day.