RE: [cobalt-users] RE: Advantage of Running DNS on RAQ4i

["Rodolfo J. Paiz \(E-mail\)" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There is a definite advantage to running your own DNS server
> on your RAQ. First of all, you should probably have at least
> a T1 line to host even a few sites.  There's no such thing
> as enough bandwidth.

Brain, you sound like a UUNET salesman. Also, I beg to differ with your
statement. There *is* such a thing as enough bandwidth: as long as my pipe
is *never* 100% saturated, and not a single packet suffers delay due to
congestion, I have enough bandwidth. Hence the usefulness of packages such
as MRTG.

If you said "there's no such thing as too much bandwidth," then--barring
cost as a consideration--I'd agree. That is, I'd be glad to have a T3 if it
were free...

My hosting business is now one week old, and we host a grand total of 4
sites. (Thank you, thank you...) At this point, I'm still not exceeding 64
Kbps of bandwidth used at any point; why in the hell would I pay for a T-1?
Of course, I plan on growing quickly, but then so will my pipe: changes up
to 1 Mbps require nothing more than a phone call and are activated within
one hour.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>