Keith,

That sucks that your ISP is going (further it sounds) into the crapper. I suspect that your option in our area is likely Verizon of some kind, though maybe comcast/Spectrum competes in that area as well.

In any case, to have a static IP they're likely going to force you to have a business line of some kind. Looking on the Verizon website "Fios Business" is $50/month for 50mbit up / 50mbit down.

As for keeping your IP address, I agree with you, I don't see much hope there, but who knows.

As for putting stuff in the cloud, it's just a virtual machine running who knows where.

Though from a pure linux nerd point of view, I've come to love Linode. It's basically a cloud provider built by linux geeks. Also if you look around there are all kinds of incentives where they'll give you a 100 bucks to screw around.

The other cloud provider I've tinkered with is digital ocean, as well as AWS/GCP/Oracle cloud.

The pro/con of going to the cloud is they hide most of the knobs..

Tim.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:25 AM Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

Well, the BIG problem that I have feared so long has arrived.

GTT (my ISP) sent me a letter. The letter does not mention it, but GTT
has filed for bankruptcy protection.

The letter is full of things that I do not fully understand, but the
bottom line is: "We no longer want to do business with you. You have a
few months to get a new ISP, then we will unplug the wire."

It seems there is not enough money to be made by charging a monthly fee
to leave everything as it is.

I have had the same IPv4 address for almost exactly 20 years and a lot
things depend on that. There are three domain names that point to that
address. There is a name server, a mail server, and a web server.

I don't know how many of those things can be kept working with a new
ISP. I will spend a few days asking for advice, and then decide.

I don't have much hope of keeping the IP address with a new ISP, but I
would like to keep my domain names and continue to send and receive mail
with addresses in those domains, and to be able to put up web pages in
those domains with a minimum of censorship and advertising. I don't need
the name server if there is another way of doing this.

Currently, that is all done via a DSL line to my basement. It seems
that the new way is to "spin up" a virtual machine in the "cloud",
and run Linux and servers from there. I don't know much about that.

I live in Worcester, about a mile from WPI.

More details can be read here:
http://www.free-comp-shop.com/none/lossage.html
at least for a few more months.

-- Keith
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