dammit

[den]

I am annoyed with the company's web host. Email dropped out yesterday, a trouble ticket was sent, and no word. In the past the problem was fixed with no notification of what they did or what was wrong. I can see in the site cpanel that no one has exceeded the email allowance but I can't do anything about it. I wish the host was here in Aus, so I could call them.

Looks like it's time for DIY company web hosting. james_bmakovette any ideas that would help?

Comments

[jamesb]

Are you thinking about going for a roll-your-own solution?

[makovette.livejournal.com]

You will be pleased to know that we have working DSL now :-D

And I have two solid daze worth of moving work ahead of me, doh! Can you post in the HRF group which domains you want to move to Vegas in what order please? I'll start whittling away at those as time allows.

THhanks!
Mako

[jamesb]

No problems ... there's only 3 to be done, and it's really just a case of doing the DNS stuff. The data should already be there.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Looking at either rolling-our-own or changing hosts. Changing hosts is easiest but if something goes wrong we'll be in their hands to get it fixed. Doing it myself means that if something goes wrong I can fix it. The downside is that if something goes wrong *I'll* have to fix it.

It depends if IPrimus will let us add a web/email server to our connection.

[jamesb]

First thing to find out is if you have the option of a static IP. Doing web and e-mail stuff with a Dynamic IP is possible but it just adds one extra wrinkle. It can be done, it's just extra work, and will add the cost of using a DNS service from somebody that can handle Dynamic IPs.

You'll also have to see if they do port filtering. Port filtering may prevent you from hosting a usable e-mail server. Many ISPs default to port filtering if you have a Dynamic IP.