[ale] State of play re home Internet with static IP

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I mean, I have a full sized rack in my apartment and 10 GbE fiber runs and
just mentioned I transfer 1-3 TB / day. I've been hosting services since
the days of writing ipchains rules (on Gentoo of course). I know a thing
about self-hosting and have the $250+/month 1 BR apartment electrical bills
to prove it :-)

my question specifically was around running your own email, which seems to
be more of a hassle with the overly aggressive blocklists like Spamhaus
requiring basically a fixer and a bribe to get your domain unlisted and the
low cost of reliable email services. learning DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are
useful skills and I understand the privacy angle a bit, though you can just
use GPG or another solution (DJ: this gmail address is used for throwaway
stuff). my biggest gripe with running your own email is if you are relying
on email for any sort of alerting (Icinga or other health monitoring for
instance), and your email server fails (you kick the laptop under your bed
when you get up to go to the bathroom at night etc.), you better have some
auxiliary way to get those alerts that your email server is down :-)

static IPs makes sense based on some of the explanations y'all have given,
specifically some site-to-site VPN solutions, though in my experience
"dynamic" IPs given from an ISP generally persist for months, if not years
unless the MAC address on your gateway changes - it is DHCP after all. and
in most cases, an FQDN can work just find in place of an IP.

we all have a resource limitation in our lives, usually it's either time or
money. so you have to prioritize what you spend either resource on. and
also what hill you're willing to die on :-)

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:33 AM Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:24:54PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
> > I've spoken to a rep for Comcast Business and they're telling me that
> within
> > reason (with respect to affected region(s) and length of outage, I
> presume)
> > their service will remain unaffected by power outage. That handles 1.
> above,
> > and they also offer as few as one static IP address which should be
> > sufficient to handle 2.
>
> Since I got comcast biz service in 2013, I've had several outages.  Two
> were due to hurricanes and lasted a couple of days (waah, first world
> problems), one was due to someone plowing into the power substation that
> fed my entire neighborhood (my UPS batteries laster longer than
> Comcast's, but that became a moot point after the outage ticked past the
> 4th hour..) and the final two were literally caused by somone with a
> shovel.
>
> Both shovel-induced outages led to Comcast having a truck in my driveway
> under an hour after I called.
>
> One other thing -- you can supply your own modem with comcast internet,
> and that works well.. unless you want a static IP!  So factor in modem
> rental into the cost.  It was up $12/mo a couple of years ago.
>
> (They screwed something up on their end when I moved last, so they think
>  I now own their modem.  Needless to say I'm not going to complain!)
>
> > Comcast says they can give me a VoIP-like service that can optionally
> use my
> > old phone number. I'm undecided on that; the phone rings with random
> > robocalls and other solicitations 3-5 times a day (Do Not Call list
> > notwithstanding) and there are only 3 living persons whom we know who
> ever,
> > *ever* call that line.
>
> I'd only get the phone if the bundle is cheaper than standalone service
> (and then cancel after the promotion ends!)
>
> > We would like to have a TV service with DVR available and it's my
> > understanding from talking to Comcast that it would have to be Xfinity
> > piggybacked on the Comcast Business service.
>
> I don't recall if comcast biz's TV service offers a DVR-capable STB, but
> it's on the "X1" platform so it may.
>
>  - Solomon
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