[35793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broken Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Fri Mar 16 00:23:49 2001
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:57:12 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
'Patrick Greenwell' <patrick@cybernothing.org>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Peter Francis <peter@softaware.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <013001c0adaa$8af39a40$26132ca1@glock>; from ssprunk@cisco.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:09:14PM -0600
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:09:14PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> > >Currently the only ones that can do that are those that;
> > >1. Are large enough to justify a /20 (begging the question of how
> > >they got that large).
> > >2. Can afford their own datacenter.
> >
> > No. Co-lo your website and "intranet". Get two T1's that same
> > provider via two different entry points/carriers to your office (if
> > possible) and you should be about as rock solid you could expect
> > for $2-3000/month or there abouts.
>
> Trust all of your server availability and corporate connectivity to a
> single ISP? The only point of failure you've (hopefully) eliminated is
> the local loop. And, if you depend on back-end servers to feed your
> coloed web servers (likely), that local loop is still essential. And
> now you're paying for rack space and it's a pain to do maintenance.
> Wonderful.
IPO a new network carrier and do leveraged buyouts of a couple backbones,
then your small business can have the same facilities as any mega-corp.
geez, decent network infrastucture costs a decent chunk of money and requires
a decent amount of requisite know-how.
if you don't have all of these, then you gotta do the best with what you can
get.
a friend of mine used to spout "Cheap, Fast, Good, pick two".
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