From: tom@invalid.tld   
      
   On Thu, 30 May 2019 18:48:26 -0400   
   Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 30 May 2019 12:24:16 -0700, tom  declaimed   
   > the following:   
   >   
   > >On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:19:20 -0500   
   > >Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Your website just goes to a earthlink page, do you have an updated   
   > >link?   
   >   
   > 	If that is in reference to my signature... Back when   
   > Earthlink was also my ISP and DSL provider (actualling reselling AT&T   
   > DSL service), I had (grandfathered) access to Usenet via them, along   
   > with 10MB of web-space storage per email address (I used four of the   
   > 8 allowed to the service).   
   >   
   > 	When I moved, last summer, it was to a location at which AT&T   
   > no longer provided basic DSL (riding on a POTS phone line). My choice   
   > was to have AT&T connect POTS phone line, then submit that phone line   
   > to Earthlink for "high speed Internet" (which was their resold AT&T   
   > U-verse service), which would require changing the phone line from   
   > POTS to digital... OR just have AT&T connect the phone line as   
   > U-verse VOIP and Internet (bundled with DirectTV into one bill).   
   > Earthlink, for around $8 a month, offers email-only service (for up   
   > to 5 email addresses) -- so I converted just to retain my four email   
   > addresses. However, I immediately lost Usenet and had to find an   
   > alternative provider (actually, Earthlink stopped running their own   
   > servers years ago, and subcontracted Giganews for the job).   
   >   
   > 	It was back in March that Earthlink apparently ran an audit   
   > and wiped out the four 10MB web sites. I've since opened a port on my   
   > router, and configured a Raspberry Pi 3B to run nginx, accessed via a   
   > dynamic DNS system. That bad: limited upload rate from U-verse (about   
   > 1Mbps upload, vs 14Mbps download) and risk of wearing out SD card   
   > storage on RPi from cycling log files. The good: I'm not limited to   
   > 10MB per site (there is over 6GB unused on the SD card).   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   that's fantastic! I love personal hand-done homepages! Thank you for   
   sharing.   
      
   If you are interested, I will be building out a new webserver soon and   
   wouldn't mind giving you a couple hundred megs of free static hosting   
   on my new webserver. That is if you would rather not maintain a   
   raspberry pi.   
      
   I do this kind of stuff professionally. I greatly enjoy seeing original   
   content and hand-done stuff on the web, and I was so sad when GeoCities   
   destroyed decades worth of web history when they canceled their   
   services. That's why I don't mind hosting other people's sites as long   
   as they are small, and static.   
      
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