HI ,

I know this isn't the typical question you might expect in a purely technical forum , but since it still has to do with networking in general i thought i should post it here.

I was asking myself that if you wanted to establish some sort of internet business ,ISP , Content Provider or any other type of organization that requires a substantial out of ordinary internet presence.

How and from Whom should you get your internet connection/s from??
It's obvious that companies like Google or Yahoo Don't phone some ISP like normal users do and ask for an internet subscription or something...LOL

As far as i know content providers or any other "huge" internet user usually does get their connection from what's called internet exchange points , but that's all i know about the subject.

If you would like to share any infos regarding this topic , please don't hesitate!

Regards

I know that Comcast hosts its web site at Network Solutions. I think that's really really weird.

Well my sources tell me that comcast.com is not hosted at network solution ( i don't think they do web hosting anyway) but what they do is holding there domain with them.

anyways , I'm still interested in knowing how to establish your own internet network

Regards

Well, I don't know exactly what this means so I guess I interpreted it incorrectly.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...t-hijacke.html

Whoever attacked Comcast didn't pwn Comcast's servers. They didn't have to. They just usurped a few of Comcast's domains from their registrar, Network Solutions, for a while.

I never did like Network Solutions. Those assholes made me lose technophilia.org

Oh well. Isn't this thread just Stevie Wonder leading Ray Charles? Allow me to contribute my $0.02. In order of least investment (and least flexibility) to highest cost (but highest flexibility), you've got:

• Googlepages / other free website
• Paid web hosting (such as Delta Web Hosting, who I've used and liked)
• Yahoo-hosted domain
• VPS (Virtual Private Server), which gives you root access to one of many virtual machines on a server
• Dedicated Server, which gives you root access to a machine on which you are a god. From time to time Server-a-Day offers decent ones for $30 or $35 a month
• Colocated Server -- your own hardware in someone else's basement
• Managed Dedicated Server -- same god access as before, only the hosting company performs more ass kissing for the technophobic.
• Hire your own IT staff and host in-house, which is what you were hinting at in the thread starter.

Now, from whom you get your Internet access depends on your physical location. Bandwidth is generally cheaper and fiber more plentiful in metropolitan areas -- Atlanta, Houston, etc. But Internet access is pretty much a utility. Whatever telco services your physical location, that's who will be serving your Internet access. Now, they may lease their lines to another Internet provider, who might offer competitive rates; but it's just tomatoes / tomahtoes.

I got that impression too. It made me think of the late 1980s when you could lease a 56 Kbps line to UUNet and a handful of phone lines from the phone company and start a BBS, later start an ISP.

I looked into this a few years ago. I think that in 2001 it would cost $5000 per month to lease T1 line to UUNet.