Re: [cobalt-users] Ra3 On Cable

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/16/00 1:57 PM, MistaAviB@xxxxxxx at MistaAviB@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello All! I am going to buy a raq3 soon for a personal business, I wish to
> host it on my cable connection. Is this fast enought? will it handle? It's a
> raq3i with >300mhz 128mb ram 13g disk etc.... ??? Also, i need to set it up to
> work on my windows network? Is this possible? Can i set it up using a router?
> 
> I have setup this stuff at work, but not at home. Please advise :)

It really depends on the Cable provider.  Mine, for example, provides a 128k
upstream which is enough bandwidth to serve about 3 simultaneous users (at
most).  It helps to know the transfer stats (estimated) of the sites you'll
be hosting.

Best case, they provide you about 512k, which you can server a reasonably
large amount off of.  But the big problem I have found with cable is that
latency (that last mile) is way lame.  Its like 50ms or so from me to the
first real router on @home's network.  Also most cable providers won't
gaurentee you any bandwidth.  So you are on a shared connection, in most
cases and you get what you get as far as bandwidth.

Really the best way to go is to co-locate with someone like rackspace.com or
digital nation.  Advantages include: fire suppression, power protection
(short-term and long-term), climate control, redundant routing, bandwidth on
demand, dedicated bandwidth available.

There are really very few cases where co-location doesn't make sense.

-k