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I was thinking of secondary DNS again, and that got me wondering how much people pay, or are prepared to pay for services.
I used to have a rented VM (virtual machine, running User-Mode-Linux) which cost me around 20 UK pounds a month. Now I have a dedicated server which costs around 600 a year.
I find that both expensive, and also affordable.
But that is about the only cost I have to my online world. (If we ignore the combined Cable TV/telephone/internet access I get from Telewest, which comes in at around 50 pounds a month).
Most other services I use are free, although some give you more "stuff" if you pay. For example I have a paid account at LiveJournal which cost me $100.
I also have paid money for accounts at other sites, (but not Kuro5hin, OSNews, or Slashdot which I don't really think I would gain much from by paying; not the case in LiveJournal).
So how much do other people pay for hosting? Websites? Services like DNS?
I figure that 99% of online users go for the free, or cheap options, but that the 1% who pay make up for it.
Interesting subject .. but hard to find numbers on.
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cable internet service: $60/month
VoIP phone: $20/month
dedicated server: $70/month
Most other services I use are free, except my LWN membership. I also have another server that is technically mine, but the cost is shared between myself and a few others.
Expensive? Perhaps, but it's my drug of choice :-)
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The prices seem roughly competative - and it is worth paying a little bit extra for hosting which is reliable, stable, and backed by clever people - like that I use.
Still DNS is important enough that I'd be a little reluctant to trust it to a third party I couldn't complain at .. which kinda rules out most of the cheaper services. I've used dynadns in the past and they were good though :)
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There are cheaper sites around, and it is nice to see links to them - but I'd need root, and a reasonably good amount of space + power for the stuff I do.
I frequently install packages, backports, etc, and run intensive scripts upon my remote host - so I find that most of the cheaper sites I've investigated get ruled out.
Running a non-Debian site is pretty much out of the question for me personally. Sure I'd do it for business purposes, or for a client if they had a preference. But I use Debian, and I have a lot of personal packages, etc, that I am used to using - so running something else would need a very compelling reason.
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By design.
That way we avoid the issue of somebody "hogging the limelight". If you want to see a strict chronological list of blogs then look at Planet Debian Administration.
I did try it the other way round initially (showing the most recent N entries) but it didn't work out so nicely, I think this way is best.
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Half share in a hosted server 220GBP/annum
Domain name - 20GBP/annum (covered by my employer, don't tell the tax man).
Everything else is hardware costs, so about 40GBP/month, of which I run 5 websites, email service for family, and my own access.
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