New home…now what?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 | personal vendettas, teh internets | No Comments

Yeah…so I’m phasing out the RR home server since its way cheaper to host elsewhere (and I need a laptop).  The one thing I’ll miss, however, will be having my own email server…my mail on my own server, no ISP’s or government types snoopin around….no “Carnivore” (ref: Swordfish)

But, I think a combination of the Road Runner rumor mill (TWC might be migrating to a per MB service) and continuous bad service are the motivational points fueling this effort. No more bragging  to friends, no more trying to outsmart TWC NAT or watching bots bombard my Apache server with IIS requests

so what the !@#$ is that supposed to mean?

a) I’m not gonna pay extra for upstream/downstream.  They (TWC) are lucky I pay at all.

b) even though I will have a non ISP email server, It still wont be in house…which means a copy of my email will be on a server I don’t control (…..POP accounts get backed up just as much as IMAP accounts)…and I don’t like that.

c) I can turn off my desktop, which has accumilated atleast 5 lbs of dust.

Tags: dynamic DNS, dynamic ip, email, home server, Road Runner, time warner cable