[RTC List] local hosts - Why are we held hostage?

[Kevin Nelson]

I have the following question: Why is Humboldt County not independent from
the overall Internet? It seems crazy that we are held hostage to the big
internet providers, over sometimes undependable lines connected to “foreign
to Humboldt County” DNS servers, even for local internet services. 

 

Or am I simply ignorant of Internet technology or of local situations?

 

It seems to me that since much of the our internet needs are local, such as
access to the local campuses like HSU and CR, or local government agencies,
or local non-profits, Humboldt County should be able to be “independent” for
those local services, not depending upon foreign servers. 

 

I think we need to push the major linking, non-local ISPs, into setting up
local DNS and email servers, so that when links to the outside world die,
internal Humboldt County communications don’t likewise die. I do not think
that my every web request should have to go to a server in the Bay Area even
if it is local (HSU, from my AT&T DSL link, required 14 hops, CR required
12, Microsoft timed out). All my tracert requests went through the server
adsl-75-7-31-254.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net. 

 

Admittedly, I haven’t been keeping up on all the posts to this list, so I
hope I’m not being off-the-wall here.

 

Kevin

 

From: Cole Machado [mailto:cole.machado at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:22 AM
To: Redwood Tech
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [RTC List] Fw: Re Happy Holiday Wishes from Cole Machado

 

Bob said, "We manage the servers. we do outsource the hardware management.
But we set up and configure 
servers, manage security, maintain the software, all remotely. And we're
clear with our clients that the hardware is located elsewhere."

I like that idea. I have gotten clients who are with local hosts and who
they frustrated as they couldn't find a local LGBT web host or a local LGBT
friendly/ally webhost. For some valid resons members of the LGBT community
like to keep our money amoung eachother. So in relaunching my web hosting
business we are thinking of catering to that community locally much like
Hostdango has done with their company as a local LGBT Ally in Seattle. It
would be interested to hear back from local webhosts as to their "LGBT Ally"
status. It could help me to have a good host to reffer these people to who
is at least "friendly" or even better an ally. This would be a good solution
to my probelm in the interm untill I re-build my hosting company.

Now I have been a member of the RTC since 2001. I have very rarely sent an
email to the list. I usually just lurk and read what you guys are all
saying. I have learned alot from it. But now  on retrospect I am kinda glad
the list got my holiday message as it spurred this converstaion I have been
wanting to have locally for years. I think the little bit of politics
scatterd throughout is ok and tollerable as it relates to my technology
issues. I have gotten emails from some fellow members who are frustated
about the corporatized, right leaning leadership and conrol the RTC has
taken over the years. When are board elections??

____________________________________________________________________________
_______
¸..·*´¨¨~-:¦:-
¸.·´ ..·´¨¨))
((¸¸.·´ ..·´ *-:¦:- Cole J. Machado-:¦:-
-:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Read my blog at  <http://www.colemachado.com/>
www.colemachado.com
Phone: 707-442-5555 Fax: 612-545-3509

President & CEO, The Machado Group  <http://www.machadogroup.com/>
www.machadogroup.com
Northern California Regional & California Statewide Liaison, Join the Impact
<http://www.jointheimpact.com/> www.jointheimpact.com
Founder & Community Organizer, Impact Humboldt & Join the Impact Humboldt
<http://www.impacthumboldt.com/> www.impacthumboldt.com
Founder & Community Organizer, 707 Progressive
<http://www.707progressive.ning.com/> www.707progressive.ning.com
Member of the Board of Directors, Humboldt Pride
<http://www.humboldtpride.org/> www.humboldtpride.org
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
This e-mail may contain Company proprietary information intended for the
sole use of the recipient(s). Any use by others is prohibited. If you are
not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies
of the message.




 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redwoodtech.org/pipermail/list_redwoodtech.org/attachments/20081227/0cf70b89/attachment.html>