Basically, we've just about outgrown these T1s. Our traffic has been gradually increasing, and we're hitting near max bandwidth during peak times. Not only that, but we really want to start pushing on-line video... so 3mbits of bandwidth just isn't going to cut it. To top it off, our contract for the Ts is up anyway.
They are moving on to some crazy high intensity web stuff to revolutionize their site which requires them moving to a colocation facility that supports 100mbps connections with a TB of bandwidth. Wow, whatever that is, is going to be crazy intense.
What it means for me is that I could move to a co-location facility with a virtualized server (pronounced headache and drama) or move my dream baby server that we all purchased somewhere else.
Time warner has nothing to offer me.
Their best small business package is 7mbps down/768K up which is lame. I tested it and we go over that all day long. Not to mention it also costs $149.99. For the server, download speed isn't nearly as critical as upload speed. It didn't help that when I called the business line, they didn't know the phone was off the hook and spent about 10 minutes making fun of other customers in the background. Talk about stupid business model.
Verizon FiOS
Verizon has amazing deals but only with FiOS which is not available at my house yet. It seems like they only have in in the country and in select suburbs. The best they could do without FiOS was 1.5mb down/768k up using DSL. That wasn't going to cut it either.
Luckily, I know someone who live in FiOS land. The prices and speed for the business accounts are insane
$99.00 for 20mbps/5mbps
$139.00 for 20mbps/20mbps
$239.00 for 50mbps/20mbps
Those speeds almost sound like some magic future that I didn't believe could exist - at least not in that price range. I think the first account at $99.00 would be good for me.
The most I paid for estrip in the past was $49.00 per month but it was a lot slower connection and the headache of co-location hosting with support in India. I would rather die than live through that again. Seriously all the time I wasted would cost more money now.
So I talked to Verizon and they promised me if I put the account in my name but at my friend's house, then when it comes to my neighborhood I could just move the server there which is in fact my dream.
How are the other companies going to compete with Verizon now that FIOS is out? Is time warner just going to go out of business? I mean FIOS TV is also on its way or already out in some areas.
they are setting up fios all over the countryside first, because as i have experienced all over east aurora and springville, people all over there don't have even dsl yet. So they stopped installing dsl alltogether and are just running fios - but they are takin care of the country folk first. blah.
but the pockets of fios all over are damn sexy. i guess the fios tv is nice too. I'm hoping it will start poppin up in more places so i can sell the crap out of it!
What do you mean by a security flaw? Do you mean to say that the virtual servers and the physical servers each have their own defense mechanisms? Does the "defense mechanism" of the physical server radically differ from those employed for the virtual servers?
I was asking because it seems like an interesting analogy to approach tumours as well... So target a common weakness in each autonomous cell and then a uniting/but completely different weakness in the tumour as a whole (I guess that might include the microenvironment/stroma of the tumour). But the problem with that theory is the assumption that tumour is actually functioning as a complete physical unit with component parts and division of labour. What if it isn't? Are there any characteristics that define the "physical server" or the "complete tumour"? Or is it just an aggregation of autonomous parasitic out-of-control cells? Does it have a central controlling unit or a brain that we haven't found yet? What defines a tumour, apart from histological similarities of its component cells? Is there communication between these cells? What directs this communication? What directs the adhesion between these cells? Is there a common gene sequence in every little autonomic cell of the tumour that controls the essence of what defines the bigger tumour body? In other words, what are the COMMON genes that control the crosstalk between each cell and its neighbour and each cell and its stromal surroundings?
You'd need to find two different security flaws - one to get in the virtual server, then once inside one to get in the physical server. But, if the other virtual servers are all running the same thing, you could use the same trick you did to get into the first server to get into the other virtual servers - so nothing is really safe or sure in this world :)
So you have got autonomous smaller units each with its own blood supply coming together as a huge functioning website. That seems so complicated... and fascinating! That's how tumours work...
Just as a point of curiousity, what would a hacker need to do to bring down the whole system - all the servers including the various component virtual server?
Tinypliny, I use virtual private servers frequently - imagine a big computer with 8 processors and 8 gigabytes of RAM, and it's divided up into 16 slices. Each slice gets 1/2 gigabyte of RAM and 50% worth of a CPU, however, to each user it appears the are the only ones on a machine and they can't see outside their own boundries.
It's pretty awesome for many sites, you get control and security and guaranteed but not boundless resources. For others it's not quite enough (like estrip).
It's also useful for segregating services even if you're the only one using the server. If you've got email and web and database and blah blah blah on one server computer, you can stick each in a virtual server and if any of them choke they won't take the other services down too.
It means I use part of a real server someone else in the country and pretend its my server and no one else is using it even though plenty of people are.
What is "co-location facility with a virtualized server"? Does that mean (e:strip) will be on a spaceship hovering around Pluto in a virtual way with Indians yapping on the phone when the space station has a broken solar panel??!! Pray, tell!
Yeah, I agree. Verizon is blanketing the money suburbs first. West Seneca, Orchard Park, etc.
I would love to get FIOS over here. But, alas, it my theory that both the Moon and Antarctica will have FIOS before the unfashionable end of Bird Ave. gets it.