>From: "Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at gate.net>
>Subject: Re: Squeak Mentioned On O'Reilly
>Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 22:36:45 -0400
>
>>One option for non mission-critical applications is to do it
>>yourself. DSL and cable modems can provide fulltime net access at
>>reasonable prices. Put squeak on a cheap used computer and you're in
>>the web server business, maybe not the fastest server in the world
>>or the most robust, but quite adequate for many possible uses.
>
>True, but most cable modem companies (roadrunner, at least) are anal
>about requiring you NOT to serve from your site and attempt to
>enforce it by serving very short-fuse IP address leases.  Of course,
>you can use a dynamic DNS service to finesse the technical problems,
>but you'd still be in violation of the service agreements.

I run my PWS/Swiki on UUNet using DSL (check out 
http://www.libertybasic.com).  They helped me set it up with a static IP, so 
I guess they don't have a problem doing that.  I get 384Kbps for $180/month 
flat rate (and I'm sure there must be better deals every other week).

-Carl

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