[ale] ale.org is moving! DNS change needed.

[Derek Atkins]

Jim,

I am very surprised you're having such issues with AT&T; my personal
experience with their Giga fiber product has been overall net-positive. 
They gave me my /29 address range when I was installed, and pretty much
the only outages I've had were fiber cuts due to lazy workers not paying
attention on my property (except for ONE time when there was an issue in
the neighborhood).

I'm sorry you've had such bad service.  A phone call to their tech support
should have been able to give you your static IP range.  Also, I think if
you log into your modem it should also give you the range programmed in! 
Or are you saying they never programmed that in??

I HAVE had *billing* issues with them..  I was charged $99 for a service
call that I was told would be free, but there was nothing I could do to
get them to reverse the charge even after a couple months.  In the
interim, the tech left so they "could not confirm" anything.  In the end
they escalated the problem, determined they could not remove the charge so
they had me pay the $99, and then sent me a $100 gift card in return. 
*shrugs*

My biggest complaint about AT&T is that while wired speedtest will give me
900-950mbps to Tucker, any *real* data that transits out of AT&T is
limited to 200-250mbps.  In other words, I don't actually get 1G for
actual Internet usages (even when I load-spread like bittorrent to
download Red Hat DVDs).  I *feel* like Comcast's interconnects are less
congested (although I never had 1G from Comcast so can't actually compare
apples to apples).

Regardless, congrats on the move of ale.org; long may she run!

-derek

On Fri, March 12, 2021 6:48 pm, Jonathan L. Meek via Ale wrote:
> Has the time come to chip in beer money, I mean, hosting/admin costs of
> the website/mailing list?
>
> I ask because I usually miss these calls for help and want to try to get
> it right in light of all things pandemic.
>
> Meek
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 09:11:53AM -0500, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> As many know, the hosting of ale.org bits and services has been from my
>> home on a VM for quite some time. The data connection was using Comcast
>> Business class that while rock solid for years was certainly expensive.
>>
>> I recently shifted my home networking to AT&T Gig Fiber for WAY less
>> money. It's bandwidth is not as reliable, a few hiccups, and no one
>> seems able to provide me the actual static IP addresses I pay extra for
>> monthly. I want a credit for services not provided and I'm talking with
>> clueless people. (I expected this but was hopeful it would work out.
>> It's been 5 months....)
>>
>> As the Comcast contract ended, the monthly cost exploded (x2!!!) with
>> apparently no recourse but a new contract.
>>
>> So a new dedicated host is provisioned in Montreal with ServerMania for
>> a really decent price and good bandwidth and capacity. ale.org will have
>> a new VM with base OS easier to keep wordpress php upgraded than Centos
>> 7.
>>
>> Robert has worked to migrate existing content to the new hosting and we
>> are ready to make the transition.
>>
>> So.... It's time for a DNS party! Mike Warfield is the current DNS
>> provider. I don't think anyone else needs to jump in unless there's a
>> reason to change DNS hosting. But maybe a greybeard ale meeting is a
>> good thing anyway. Probably virtual. Covid stinks.
>> --
>> Computers amplify human error
>> Super computers are really cool
>
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