Sounds like magic but it’s probably not. We don’t have a flatrate and on top of that our provider wouldn’t ike to see the masses of traffic going through them labeled as "private" use. But an own server would be sweet. In the past we had some couple of hardcore problems with providers…. Any thoughts on that cube?
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Jon Anderson wrote,
This looks more like it is designed to run on a home network. We have a homebuilt one that performs the same function here. You could look into getting your own dedicated server that you control hooked up at a hosting facility, but you would want a nice rack mounted system with redundant hardware like a Dell Poweredge.
If you used this box from home, then all your traffic would be routed over your own internet connection, and there is no way you could handle the load.
Link | July 26th, 2007 at 4:26 pm