FibreOp is finally to my neighbourhood! I have my appointment booked for the first part of January to get it installed. I am really looking forward to it because:
a) it gets me off Rogers Cable services. Not only is FibreOp cheaper but I won’t have to listen to the “We are experiencing higher than normal call levels” – even at 2:00 AM – only to have them tell me to reboot my digital cable box;
b) it upgrades me from Warp 3 – yes, the original 1.5 MB down/ 768 KB up service – to 30 MB down/30 MB up. The CSR I was talking to said that I would notice a speed increase. No 5h1t! Ha, ha!
This means, however, that my nice multi-zoned and firewalled home network setup is toast. For now at least. Others have told said, and I have done far too much Googling on the subject, that “yes” I can host my web server on FibreOp but I really do not like the way that you have to use the FibreOp supplied router. It seems like a nice home router but it is not up to the level of my SonicWall routers. Maybe things will change but…
I have a server hosting provider out of Montreal. I wanted to keep it in Canada as I prefer to stay national if possible. Not that I don’t trust U.S. PATRIOT Act laws. No, not at all…
My sites have been moved to the new hosting service. The weather station was a little challenge as I had to move everything over to SCP and Cumulus doesn’t support SCP yet. Anyway it is working now. And so is the blog which you are reading now. I actually didn’t have to read too much to remember how to backup and restore a database and permissions 😉