[olug] (OT) - Free/Cheap Temporary Colo-space

[Sam Tetherow]

Trent Melcher wrote:

>Well, I am hosting my churches website at home right now,  I don't have Cox,
>so I don't have to deal with the port blocking.  Im taking car eof DNS and
>have battery backup and cool for my little data center in my basement,
>however, my pipe is only 256Kbps (advertised) Im actually getting close to
>900Kbps up and down.  So far its runniing fine, but it's a wireless
>connection with line-of-site to the tower, so on really windy days (like
>last Thursday) my connection can drop intermitently, so Im looking for an
>alternative.  Im really interested into a facility of some sort.  Im working
>on a deal with a friend of mine right now, that is looking at moving his
>home office into a space in bellevue(close to his residence) he has offered
>me some space for a rack to hold my handful of servers.  He is going to have
>a dedicated T1 to start, and depending on his revenue and requirements might
>be increasing that.  This at least will be a good start for me, to host my
>web/dns/smb/mysql/postgresql servers.  Myabe there is a site somewhere in
>Omaha that could do something similar for our needs,  where are OLUGS
>currents servers residing?  Maybe there is a little space avaiable in that
>area?
>  
>
OT a bit, but you shouldn't lose connectivity on a windy day with 
wireless I have hundreds of installs and we didn't get a call at all 
last week with problems.  Either you need to secure your antenna mount 
better or you WISP needs to do the same with their AP.  In general CPE 
antennas have atleast a 30* beam width so you have plenty of 'play' in 
the aim for minor vibration.

--- Sam Tetherow