So we have a slight problem coming up. As you all know the static IP change went quite smoothly, however, some other things have changed.
BE Unlimited have been bought by Sky, who don't do residental static IP addresses or reverse DNS. Business only - though they are looking into it for existing BE customers like me.
They are just taking on customers, not BE's excellent network, or, as it sounds, the very technically excellent support staff in Bulgaria, whome it has been a pleasure to work with in the past.
So, I'm seriously considering jumping ship to PlusNet fibre for 76mbps down and 19.5mbps up. They do static IPs and RDNS entries.
Sounds straightforward, however, my line isn't a BT one, it's also with BE - and migrations in this manner in the past have sometimes left a window of weeks with no broadband. Something to do with stopping one taking down the other.
As far as this place goes we have a few choices:
- put up with downtime until it's sorted
- move to a paid host
- move temporarily onto a dedicated server stateside owned by a good friend of mine that I'm sure wouldn't mind lending it out (he barely uses it, even though it's something daft like $50 a month)
What do you think?
