DSL Server Hosting

[Zach]

My boss wants to move his co-located servers out of where they are right now, and I'm looking at options. one is putting high end DSL in his house and doing it there...

And, talking to the guy who co-locates my servers (very far away), I'm curious about what you guys think about using DSL for servers? I could cut us down to just a few IP's (we have 20, use about 12 now), and he cab get megabit service I think. I'd want sDSL, right? From my conversations, some places (the good ones), run a seperate line for their DSL and have thier own DSL equipment so you don't go throght the phone company, their own DSLAM, I think.

Opinions?

 

[CBuxton]

I run 4 sites with DSL. I upgraded to 1Mbps service and the pages load fast. None of my pages are high traffic and most are new (a month old), so for now DSL works just fine. I use QWest for the ISP and the lines. They let you have 8 IP addresses.

 

[blstriker]

I've never heard of anybody owning their own CO, but it might be possible. My website now runs on a 768/128 line and it is very very stable. There are currently 12 moderately trafficked sites on my webserver including a site that is dedicated to running your own webserver on DSL or cable 😉

 

[Zach]

We'd need more than 128 up, I know that..

 

[Ender78]

Depending on how you really quantify hosting, DSL may or MAY not be the solution for you.


1) Where are you located ?
2) How much bandwidth do you need ?
3) Find out what the maximum speed you can get is
4) Find out who offers DSL services in your area.
5) Can you live with a 3-4 day outage if there is a problem with the circuit.

For any larger scale of hosting I would not recommend DSL. The upstream limitation as well as slow repair time can be a problem.