Broadband Service for server

[USSEnterprise]

I am trying to set up a server for an after school activity and want to use our own physical server. It would be used for a website and blog. I have Cablevision and Verizon available in my area. We are trying to keep it cheap. Anyone have any ideas?

[Santoro]

Get the fastest upload speed you can  - I think Cablevision wins on that count. 

[SirPoonga]

I am trying to set up a server for an after school activity

Not school related I take it?

You know how some high schools have a chess club, or d&d club, or clubs like that.... maybe schools should have a LAN party club

[USSEnterprise]

maybe schools should have a LAN party club Smiley

Good Idea

Its for a political group, which the school most likely cannot endorse.

[DrewKaree]

maybe schools should have a LAN party club Smiley

Good Idea

Its for a political group, which the school most likely cannot endorse.

So it appears to be a conservative group  

[quarterback]

Get the fastest upload speed you can  - I think Cablevision wins on that count. 

You just need to check your TOS.  It's very possible that setting up a server is not something your cable company will allow without an 'upgrade' of your account.

[ChadTower]

For a small school group, the load would be so light that they are unlikely to notice if you used the regular dyndns type setup.

Of course, they may object to a 4th grade neonazi forum.   

[Santoro]

And if the ISP blocks port 80, there are ways around that with redirecting services.

[ChadTower]

What you would do then is just set up your ISP webspace page to the domain, and put one page up there with a 1 second meta refresh to point to your machine on a port like 100.

[USSEnterprise]

maybe schools should have a LAN party club Smiley

Good Idea

Its for a political group, which the school most likely cannot endorse.

So it appears to be a conservative group  


Just the opposite. We're a bunch of Bush hating hippies in the middle of a highly conservative town

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Just the opposite. We're a bunch of Bush hating hippies in the middle of a highly conservative town

Yeah! Go Team!

(Although, I'm not a Hippie myself. Wore a shirt and tie throughout High School, likes to wear a suits without occasion, was never really good at hacky-sack, can't stand Patchouli, and hate the Grateful Dead, Fish and jam bands in general)

 



mrC

[DrewKaree]

Just the opposite. We're a bunch of Bush hating hippies in the middle of a highly conservative town

If that's the case, I'd ask the principal.  He may offer to host your site, or ask you to run the school's in exchange for web space!

[USSEnterprise]

What the hell is on your avatar?

[DrewKaree]

Depends.  Someone told me it looked like a muffin, which personally, I just thought they were hitting on me.  Yeah I know...it's a cross I have to bear, being this dead-sexy

If you look REAL closely, you can read the text of the award I won, and that color of yellow seems to be a popular skin tone on the simpsons

[USSEnterprise]

so terribly wrong