[PLUG-TALK] TelCo Rant

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> I have a VM at slicehost.com from which I serve web and e-mail bits to and
> from madboa.com. I have full control over the packages that get installed,
> upgraded, etc. (Well, except for the kernel. Slicehost uses custom
> kernels.) I maintain my own Apache and Sendmail/ClamAV/SpamAssassin
> setups. I administer the setup via full ssh and console access.
>
> It costs $20/month and frees me from worrying about what happens when my
> IP address changes or residential service goes down.
>
> As a plus, it's fairly easy to employ that host for SOCKS5-over-SSH
> proxying of Firefox traffic when I'm on a public network and don't want
> anyone snooping my web browsing, no matter how innocuous it is.

Paul,

   OK. I'm convinced. All I need now is the time to learn what I need to
understand and to arrange for the changes. Real Soon Now, as Jerry Pournelle
used to write in Byte.

Thanks,

Rich

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