[plug] iinet and spam

[Bernard]

Glen,

Another possibility is the equivalent for web hosting - As a
compromise between hosting on an ISP machine or a personal server,
would it be feasible to set up a caching service (http accelerator)
where say www.mydomain.com refers to a http accelerator at an ISP
and it would either serve up cached static files or otherwise fetch
them from the client's machine elsewhere. Hence saving the client
some bandwidth but still able to serve their own dynamic content if
need be. Am I making any sense?

Technically I'm sure it's possible, and I would probably sign up for
such a service at a reasonable price. It'd be particularly useful for
clients on permanent but low bandwidth 56k connections.

Regards,

Bernard.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:34:10PM +0800, Glen Lewis wrote:
> Question: One of my engineers suggested a product whereby we would
> provide a IPSec or PPTP tunnel to a fixed IP address for both iiNet and
> other ISP clients.  The tunnel would cost around $10/month per IP address,
> and we would charge usual bandwidth fees.  The _real_ benefit of this is
> for Linux users who could create a permanent tunnel to the server and have
> a fixed IP address for the purpose of getting email, etc - i.e.: an A
> record.
>  
> You could then set up your routing table to push all your usual traffic
> down your "unlimited dialup link" and have the fixed IP address there just
> looking after your email.  This may be particularly useful for Bigpond
> ADSL customers, whereby Telstra charges huge amounts for fixed IP's and
> the like.
>  
> Do you think people would be interested in such a product?

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 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au