Re: [cobalt-users] Real World Qube 2 and such

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Hector Cabarcas wrote:
> 
> Currently our website is being hosted at a major provider. We own the domain
> name. Our access to the internet is via Time Warner's Road Runner. It's a
> cable modem account and seems to provide good bandwidth. If I were to
> attempt hosting it internally via the Qube2, who assigns us the IP address?
> Time Warner is telling me it would cost me $479 per month to assign me a
> static IP address - which is out of the question. Their IP addresses are
> dynamically generated. Can I host the site internally while still having a
> dynamically generated IP address?

The short answer is no.  When people look up say www.san.com, then this 
human-friendly address is resolved into 194.201.254.222.  How this happens
is non-trivial, and the process does kindof expect the IP address (the one 
with numbers) not to change every five minutes.

No doubt somebody will now say that it is *technically* possible...

The other thing is I wouldn't want to put the company's crown jewels - 
your data - on a very visible machine such as a webserver.

Finally, if you what you want is a straightforward fileserver, I wouldn't
particularly recommend a Cobalt appliance for the job.  Data has a habit
of growing at ever-increasing rates.  I'd recommend a "real" server with 
fast SCSI disks, tape backup, yadda yadda yadda, running Linux.