who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

Stephen J. Wilcox steve at telecomplete.co.uk
Mon Mar 15 10:48:11 UTC 2004


Sorry this thread is huge, I hope I'm not repeating comments..

if the market for this is nanog and you're just looking for smtp/shell surely we
can manage this between ourselves without charge (ask your nanog buddy for a
shell as a favour).. I know I can and will do this

Steve

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote:

> 
> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > every time i tell somebody that they shouldn't bother trying to send e-mail
> > from their dsl or cablemodem ip address due to the unlikelihood of a well
> > staffed and well trained and empowered abuse desk defending the reputation
> > of that address space, i also say "buy a 1U and put it someplace with a real
> > abuse desk, and use your dsl or cablemodem to tunnel to that place."
> 
> My cable modem provider filters port 25, so I can't run my own SMTP 
> server.  Their mail servers suck.  Yes, I could pay for a business class 
> cable modem connection and they'd unblock the port... but I'd likely 
> still be filtered.
> 
> Guess who is having a dedicated 1U set up right now? ;-)
> 
> I think Paul is right, there is a small niche market for this.
> 
> 




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