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MOST of the time it's really gay! In a lot of places you buy a
descent connection....let's say a T3 but then the providers and
telcos connect 20 T3 on a T3 Hub....or somewhere in between
is a full cirquit... try measuring the throughput on your line and be
shocked.....
Ok if you really know what you are doing, don't mind spending
big dough on good router and switches....I suggest also invest
in router on ISP site since otherwise you don't have control over
the routing policies....then offcourse what happens if your line is
down?? redundancy...0 with 1 line.
And have the manpower to fix stuff in case it's down.....this is
usually when you are asleep or not anywhere near the place.
Then it's a good option.
Really the advantages of a good ISP are too many to mention.
Here a few. 24/7 support, redundancy, interconnection between
multiple big ISP's good hardware, cheap pricing, etc, etc.
Put your servers with a Good ISP, have production servers in
your office. Connect your production servers through VPN to your
servers at your ISP. That's a good setup. You will have a good
test environment and always a good backup.
Most people try to save too much on their hosting. Never forget
if your sites are not online or not working properly you won't
make money. I have seen sites that had shit hosting doing half a
Mbit....they move to good hosting....bandwidth goes to 2Mbit
sales go up...and then they realise damn saving 100 dollars per
month has costed me 1000's of dollars per month....
You should consider this.....
No I don't run an ISP (anymore) just my 2 cents...
DynaMite
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