Re: [cobalt-users] How many can I host on a T1 Line (Cobalt 4)

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brent Sims wrote:

> realize that every user in the group that your
> cable connection is in will have the kind of access to your bit
> stream that will allow them to easily sniff traffic and passwords.

True.

> Even the like's of SSH won't protect you.

False.  SSH will still encrypt your traffic and no one should be able to
read it.

> I have a sniffer here
> which will sniff the ports on all of our switches and across
> the switches themselves and which gives me the plain text version of
> more than enough supposedly secured passwords to make it more than a
> bit difficult for me to sleep at night.

If you've got a sniffer that can read SSL and SSH encrypted traffic
please take your invention to CERT and get it validated as such
<smile>.  Because if you can sniff and read passwords, etc., in real
time, then you've got an amazing invention.

> I'm not saying that you shouldn't do this. Quite the
> contrary in fact. We started on a DSL connection and today, just
> three years or so later, we've got better connectivity and more
> of it than all the local ISPs that helped us get here have. Knock
> yourself out, and the best of luck to you. If I, a complete idiot,
> can do it someone as sharp as you won't have a bit of trouble. I am,
> however, suggesting that if you are going to be getting paid for
> hosting web sites than you really ought to be thinking about at
> least starting with a T1 kind of T1 and a real network behind it.

I agree, but I think she made it clear the RaQ's going to stay at her
ISP; it's her connectivity that's going to stay on cable.  Anyway, I
sure hope so <smile>.

> Today a nice solid fractional T1, powered by a reputable National
> provider can be had for about the same price as the DSL connection
> we started on - which wasn't a whole lot more than that Cable
> connection you envision is going to cost you.

Brent, if you know of any providers offering sub $500 T-1, which is what
it sounds like you're saying, please direct me to URLs of companies
offering same; I've not seen one yet that's not fraught with fine-print
that makes it much more expensive in the long run.  I've been trying to
find such a connect (anywhere) for some time.

Thanks!

Jeff
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