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| Caltrops future speculations by Senor Barborito 01/30/2003, 8:27pm PST | ||||
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| At some point the future of Caltrops is going to look like this (from suck to not suck):
a) I'm hopefully going to get a job in the near future (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) and simply purchase a cable modem connection in addition to our DSL connection and use the cable for V and I's surfing/gaming - cable is simply better for this purpose. This would leave a half-T1 equivalent in bandwidth (due to our running with the more expensive server plan we are not only allowed contractually to run servers on our ISP but are given packet priority so our line completely saturates immediately) dedicated to Caltrops with nothing else on it. I'd like to think some of my little coding projects might eventually be run off of this line as well, but that's far out in the future. b) Again job, this time shift Caltrops to co-loc (think I found a decent one in Seattle that'll hook me up with a 5GB transfer/month and cage for $125/mo), drop DSL over here completely and go with the cable modem. On the plus side, the servers will get better care and feeding, a backup generator, and the ability to survive a slashdotting (although it looks to be $6/GB for each GB of xfer over monthly limit), on the downside people would probably be asked to donate to help offset the cost (mind that we only chew up 1.5GB/mo around here so just the $125) making it unethical for me to screw around with side projects on the line. But that's just selfishness talking, this is probably a better option than a). c) regardless of job, Entropy Stew might somehow manage to swing something with Exodus, and we're on redundant OC-12s presumably Lunix shared server of some kind. This removes me almost entirely from the site's administration/upkeep equation unless I'm drastically misunderstanding something. However, the subject of cost is a completely unknown factor at this time and might be overwhelming. This would probably - despite my personal desire to remain extremely involved in the site administration - be the best thing for caltrops if we managed to swing it. Ideally I'd have a free T3 and backup generator at home and this would all be moot, and despite the fact that if we move back to our old apartment complex (something I wouldn't mind doing if we got a larger room) I would be able to literally lean out the window and spit on a Qwest network center I don't forsee this happening. Can you comprehend the agony of someone who makes every decision of his life based on whether it will give him more bandwidth having to look out the window at a NOC with OC-48s running through it EVERY FUCKING DAY? It's fucking torture no man should know of, I tell you. I am become Tantalus or something. Ideally despite the free T3 and generator I could still stash the server someplace with managed hosting. And it'd be a rackmount server, yeah. Ideally the site would have an OpenBSD front and a FreeBSD backend. FreeBSD 5.0, if reports are true, scales and performs better than almost anything on the planet. OpenBSD isn't necessarily the most secure thing ever (please note, this is all relative to the x86 - I know that there are A2 rated or whatever special-purpose OSes/machinery out there that the NSA likes), but it's probably the easiest OS to lockdown into a semblance of the most secure thing ever. Also the latest good ideas in security tend to be implemented on OpenBSD first, for some reason (admittedly NetBSD has managed to win a few rounds on this front). --SB |
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Caltrops future speculations by 01/30/2003, 8:27pm PST  We need 1.5 gig a month just to display the fucking fight thread -nt- NT by 01/31/2003, 2:44am PST Re: Exodus by 01/31/2003, 1:31pm PST |
