[aclug-L] Re: colocation options

[flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx]

> I've always been frustrated by the choices out there, myself. If you
> don't want an "ftp-only FrontPages PHP MySQL Perl" or the equivalently
> super-lame MS arrangement, you seem to be out of luck, unless you want
> to pay through the nose. Their excuse is always security. To me, this
> whole scene is suffocating all the innovative, exotic small open source
>  projects out there like Mason, Zope, mod_scheme, etc. It's hard to
> find  even Java hosting! I guess I don't blame the Web hosting
> companies as  much as I blame the general pervasive anti-peer-to-peer
> attitude of the  ISPs and big telcoms. My former M'ridge DSL service
> came with a static  IP, but when I asked Carrolls Web about domain
> name, they wanted to jack  $15/mo. out of me. This is all a shame, and
> the anti-peer-to-peer forces  will eventually turn a beautiful thing,
> the Internet, into a very bad  thing, i.e., one-way brain cloning a la
> TV and radio.

What the heck did you talk to Carroll's web for?  I have a static IP from
them, and host a web site on it.  So do many other people.  Carroll's web
doesn't need to know.


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