[sllug-members]: Host my own, or pay someone?

[Don on Google]

Sorry it OT, my $.02 re: XMission+ UTOPIA:

I prefer to support local companies when practical to do so (my car wasn't
made in UT ;)), but when I contacted XMission I was informed that they had a
200GB cap per month throughput (but that they did not lways enforce).  Now
when you are used to Cable/DSL, this may not sound too bad but last Saturday
I transfered just over 100GB (USENET, it's the devil ;)) . . . my first
month I transfered 500GB on USENET alone.  Not that you /have/ to transfer
lots, but it's nice being allowed to.

BTW: Again last I checked, XMission was $5 more per month.  I liek the
company & I wish the president all the luck in Nov, but I like my bandwidth
& $5/mo is noticeable.

-don

PS: I trimmed my post this time ;)


I just want to chime in on this.  I have a comcast commercial account
> (I'm moving to uptopia/xmission as  soon as I have a house).  My service
> went down, it was 24 hours before a tech came out to fix it.  I had to
> leave work to meet the tech at my place.  I was reimbursed for the cost
> of the service during the outage(about $3).  There was no reimbursement
> based on how much money I lost due to the outage.
>
> Kyle
>
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