Time Warner doesn't really suck that much

This is a followup to my last post, Time Waner SUCKS!. I guess they don't suck that much. I'm not sure why, but they turned back on many of the ports that were open last week. This is great news, but this whole thing made me realize that they aren't really that reliable. Even though I can continue to run all the stuff I was before, I don't think I really will, considering the availability and throughput.

So talking with Josh we're going to keep berkshirelug.org at loki.ws. I'm going to keep joemonti.org at GoDaddy, with a development version on my home server. And erinandjoeswedding.com is going to live on my home server. Also, my MythTV box is going to be able to be useful again from the outside world. As for mail, I'm going to continue to keep it all forwarded through Gmail, its just easier that way.

Time Warner SUCKS!

Time Warner really SUCKS! For the past two years they have been great and have let me use my Internet connection as I see fit. But this past weekend they thought it would be nice to block all my incoming ports on my home road runner Internet connection. So now I can no longer host joemonti.org, erinandjoeswedding.com, or berkshirelug.org, all of which have a website, email, and database, on the Internet service that I pay for. Not only that, but my home computers are just sitting there useless. I can't even remotely login or grab a file. And my MythTV box I can no longer control from the road to record that show I forgot about.

It just really sucks and I'm pissed. But what can I do? I'm technically not supposed to run any type of "services" according to their terms of service. It's not like I'm hosting illegal or inappropriate content or spamming. Can I call Time Warner to complain?

For the time being at least I've got all my mail forwarding to my gmail account. I've moved joemonti.org and erinandjoeswedding.com to GoDaddy. And berkshirelug.org is going to move to Josh's server, loki.ws.

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