[olug] Cox sucks

[Daniel Pfile]

Luke -Jr wrote:
> Ok, so Cox is clearly blocking ports 25 and 80, despite that 3 of every 5 
> representatives say nothing is blocked and there are no terms of service...
> So it looks like I have 2 choices:
> 1. pay for a MX and HTTP reverse-proxy
> 2. pay Cox for business-class service
> 
> Either way, I need to justify the expense. Anyone looking for hosting 
> services? ;)
> 
> I can't guarantee uptime, since I don't have a big datacenter with dual WAN 
> and stuff, but I can provide static IPs if necessary and such.

Why not just get a virtual machine in a real data center? I get nice
sized one for $40/mo from linode.com and I don't have to worry about
power or hardware issues taking it down.

-- Daniel