News server
tj...@igateway.net
as weary of all of this as the rest of you, probably more so than anyone else
here. But I have talked with the people over there and they seem very informed
and very aware of the issues involved with doing this. I am waiting to get some
firm pricing on the receiver since they don't have that part worked out at all
which is a little bothersome to me. I don't like the way their web pages are
setup and I don't think the pricing on their web pages is laid out clean either.
But I am reserving judgement until I get something in writing from them and some
firm pricing on everything. So I will keep everyone posted on how it goes.
Tim Jung
Internet Gateway Inc.
tj...@igateway.net
whodp://ding.igateway.net/tjung
-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Pigott <isp...@pigott.net>
To: isp...@greennet.net <isp...@greennet.net>
Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: News server
>At 08:43 AM 12/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>Go look at http://www.skyserv.com and see if it is better to pay $99 per
>>>month for a full professional satellite feed that does not bring your
>>>incoming T1 to its knees. That proposition of exchanging feeds via your
>>>leased line will cost you the price of a monthly T1 lease plus port charge
>>>from your upstream. Put that T1 to better uses!
>>
>>
>>Do you use this service, if so what are the pros and cons?
>>
>>
>>Gary
>
>All three of the ISPs I own use this service as their only USENET feed
>source. Haven't had a customer complain of a broken file yet, but that
>does not mean that there aren't any. Just no complaints. Whenever a
>customer reports a new newsgroup that they want us to add, the feed is
>added for me within a day or two if SkyServ does not already have it.
>
>The pros: it puts you one hop away from the source backbone always, since
>there are zero interim router hops between you and the source backbone
>router. Since the feed bypasses the terrestrial network completely, there
>are never any NNTP UDP-ish packets dropped along the route due to some
>router along the traceroute dropping some of your NNTP packets. This is
>not an NNRP feed service - it gives you full control. It works with your
>existing news server, plugging into your ethernet backbone like a
>2500-series router. Finally, it really is a full and complete feed with
>all newsgroups and all binaries.
>
>The cons: it is a full USENET news feed. You either have to beef up your
>own NNTP server with additional RAID-5 drives, or buy their turnkey server
>with a built-in Mylex Ultra2 LVDV RAID-5 controller to keep up with the
>huge amounts of data flowing down the satellite feed. Of course, you can
>limit the number of days of storage before you expire the articles from
>your server, and keep down the size of your storage array.
>
>The company is a large multi-million dollar engineering company with dozens
>of degreed engineers, not a few hack techs who won't be there next year for
>you. They have something like a hundred employees or so. They even promise
>to buy back your equipment if you elect to give up the service, unlike
>pagesat, pc-sat, avi's hobby, norm gillespie, or planet-connect. They
>appear well-capitalized, hence here to stay, to keep the service solid and
>predictable.
>
>Best of all for us, they offer term plans so that your rates won't be
>jacked up after you are stuck with a purchased satellite dish and news
>router on another vendor's monthly-only plan. Nobody else offers term plan
>commitments that I know of, especially that are pro-rate refundable against
>what you have used. If you don't like the service, you get a refund on the
>term plan. That's unheard of in this business.
>
>Hope this helps, Gary!
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