OT: How do you block servers sending oversize messages?

[Scott Silva]

Res spake the following on 10/19/2006 4:05 PM:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jim Holland wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Res wrote:
>>
>>>> something out of the country?
>>>
>>> What is the point of that? you lose immediate control and if things die,
>>> you have to wait/rely on unknown 3rd parties, some of the stories I've
>>> heard are typically "it takes hours and hours to get them to get to it"
>>> and that without nameing them, includes some pretty big well known
>>> hosting companies in the U.S who try sucker people from all over the
>>> world to use them, which is why we never will place hardware offshore.
>>
>> I agree.  We will definitely do it locally, and at a place where we can
>> get access to E1 lines for our members to dial in to (instead of our
>> current creaky old bank of 6 US Robotics modems).  24/7 backup and
> 
> Might be a good idea if finances permit.
> 
>> physical access is essential, and we also plan to move to a real server
>> for the first time instead of the desktop clones we have always used.
>> All this has to be financed from our current subs of 10 cents US
>> equivalent per user per month - time for a modest increase I would say!
> 
> 10c? I'll say it's time for an increase :)
> It's fine if its just running cost recovery, but that does become a
> problem if something dies compeltely thats worth a few K.
> 
His users probably cannot afford a large increase.


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