[geeks] News server access

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Aug 13 13:42:48 CDT 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 02:40:43PM -0400, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> joshua d boyd wrote:
> 
> > Uhm, so how do people manage to run servers off of them?  Byte used to up
> > in Nynex teritory for one.
> 
> They pay big. It's all a matter of scale. If you make $$$$$$ then
> spending $$$ on business services isn't so painful. If you make $$$ then
> $$ hurts.

Yeah, but when you say $3k, that is a larger fee than a T1 was back when
Byte was running ISDN (considered starting a small ISP, decided that
school might be a better bet), making me ask how anyone could afford to
run servers off of them.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
http://www.cs.millersville.edu/~jdboyd/



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