[ale] Speakeasy ADSL for web/email server?

[James P. Kinney III]

Speakeasy 6/.768 is what I am running on. It is fast and stable. The
price is excellent for something that is nearly a 3/4 T1 line. 

The cost is about the same as what you are paying now for the hosting
plus cable modem.

Yes, webmin _looks_ clunky. Add to it the excellent package virtualmin
and you just became an ISP. Glue in Squirrelmail and you have a complete
setup.

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 18:05, George Carless wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering whether anyone might be able to give me a little advice 
> on this:  I'm currently paying around $100/mo for a server at 1&1 (and 
> I'm actually quite happy with them), plus an extra $60-odd/mo for my 
> cable connection.  What I'm wondering is whether it might be advisable 
> for me to switch to someone like Speakeasy with their 6.0/768 adsl 
> package. 
> 
> This would give me better control over the server, including hands-on 
> access to it (which is always nice) as well as greater flexibility (more 
> ips, more options in terms of what I might like to run, etc.); however, 
> I'm a little concerned about two things: 
> 
> First, and most important-- reliability.  What's Speakeasy's uptime 
> like?  Am I likely to find myself losing service on a routine basis?  I 
> don't absolutely need 5-9s kinds of levels of reliability (I mainly 
> provide service for myself, some friends, and a handful of low-paying 
> customers who, well, can deal with a little downtime every so often); 
> still, I wouldn't want to be in a situation where the connection would 
> flake out on a weekly, or even a monthly, basis.  So, for those of you 
> who do use Speakeasy (or others; I'd be open to suggestions), can you 
> give me some idea as to whether the reliability is there?
> 
> Second, I do provide my users with access to their own email accounts 
> etc. through Plesk.  I'm not overjoyed with Plesk from a security and 
> administration standpoint, but on the other hand it does make things 
> somewhat idiot-proof for my less technical users.  Now, I suppose I 
> *could* buy plesk, since it's not all that expensive, but I just 
> wondered whether there were any suitably polished alternatives to it.  
> (I know about webmin, but it never seemed quite polished enough to offer 
> to non-techy customers)...
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> --George
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