was: Granite Canyon [DOWN] as slave server

[Christopher S. Susi]

Before I go on, I Think I may have posted the message to the newsgroup was a
litle off-topic.  If it was, I apologize.  If not ignore the past 32 words.

Would I rely  on or use a free service for something mission or business
critical, no never.  I wouldn't even use it if I expected a lot of hits.
I'd just be happy knowing it was up an ok (90%+) percent of the time.  As
well, I know it's free and I wouldn't want to take advantage of it.  I was
even wondering if there is away I could donate a some cash because I know
that indeed there are costs.

My point was is that I dont expect these to be accessed often but I will end
up paying through the nose ($10 a month) for a couple hundred bytes of disk
space, 10 min of admin time (which could even be reduced by creating a user
manegable interface), and minimal bandwidth.  If you have 5 domain names
pointing to 1 address, thats $600 a year! DNS (IMHO) should be a given to
web hosting, not another way to nickle and dime the consumer. It's like the
banking industry who charge you $3 for the privalege of being allowed to
kiss their ass.  Even $3-5 I could understand but $7.50-10.00? Get real.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Larson [mailto:matt at acmebw.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:51 PM
> To: chriss at enteract.com; bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: was: Granite Canyon [DOWN] as slave server
>
>
> At 07:15 PM 9/2/99 +0000, chriss at enteract.com wrote:
> >I run a DNS server for my real company and know
> >what admin and bandwidth it takes up, no where near $10 worth unless
> >you host microsoft.com or something.
>
> Co-location charges, bandwidth charges, server hardware, software
> development time for UI, support personnel charges, insurance--should I
> keep going?
>
> >I would be happy to host my web page with them if I could
> >take control of my DNS entries, and not have to pay $5-10 a month extra
> >per name for what will amount to 10cents worth of bandwidth.
>
> You get what you pay for.  You'd really rely on a free service for
> something important?
>
>