Running Web server on ATT BroadBand

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

The issue is that these providers want to limit upstream straffic on their net. The technical reason 
(very general) is that upstream bandwidth on Cable is limited. Initially, Mediaone allowed it 
because they did not provide for user space on their servers until fairly late in the game. The issue 
comes down to dollars. In essence, cable modem service was a residential service. Today AT&T 
BB is selling it as a commercial service at commercial rates (as well as residential rates). 

My wife uses her personal pages nearly to the max for her ebay stuff. She also uses my personal 
pages for some stuff especially when she might be approaching max. But, there are some 
advantages by using BB's personal pages over using your own server. One is better bandwidth 
and another is better security of your own machine (depending on your own firewall setups). Why 
have people beating on your own system when they can do it on AT&T's servers. I shut down port 
80 on my firewall when I saw all the CODE RED stuff in my logs. 

On 3 Dec 2001 at 12:02, linux lover wrote:

> So when they shut down the web server, what is the
> correct action to take?
>    possible answers:  
>        nothing and wait from them to turn it back on!
>        call them?
>        go to another provider?  (who?  help me)
>        etc.   
> 
> Help.  
>     Niece (linuxluva)
> --- David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > > I always get a kick out of it when people complain
> > about it.  I think they
> > > do a good job for what they have.  Dollars and
> > sense, I probably cost them
> > > more money than what I am worth.
> > >
> > > Thats just my .02 cents.  I seem to be fairly
> > opinionated lately.
> > >
> > > Do you agree or disagree - and why?
> > 
> > Personally, my issue is not that "they're not
> > allowing servers".  My issue
> > is that I signed up for the service with a
> > particular TOS that stated they
> > allow it, but don't support it, and they have
> > changed that TOS, while
> > raising my rates, without any recourse for me other
> > than dropping the
> > service.  I recognize the fact that they have the
> > right to, but that
> > doesn't mean I think it was a fair business thing to
> > change it in that
> > way.
> > 
> > The fact that I am running servers does not mean
> > that I use more bandwidth
> > that an adolescent boy who spends his weekends
> > downloading MP3's and
> > JPG's.  If I were, then they should terminate. 
> > Maybe other people with
> > servers use more bandwidth than I do.  The newbies
> > running Windows with no
> > firewall probably use more bandwidth when they send
> > out hundreds of email
> > messages every time a new virus comes out.
> > 
> > The fact that they are simultaneously removing
> > functionality,
> > increasing my downtime tremendously, and raising my
> > rates, is what has
> > driven me to go through the very frustrating
> > experience of getting DSL.
> > Yes, I am *BEGGING* three companies to cooperate
> > long enough to give me
> > half the bandwidth for $10/mo more, in the name of
> > static IPs, qualified
> > support staff, and not being shut down for a week
> > and a half.
> > 
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DDDD   David Kramer         david at thekramers.net    
> >   http://thekramers.net
> > DK KD
> > DKK D  "Questions are a burden to others,
> > DK KD  Answers a prison for oneself."
> > DDDD                                                
> >           -The Prisoner
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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