next best to leased line

JGBR

JGBR

JGBR

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Our new firm has ruled out the costs for a leased line,

this has left me stuck as was worried about hosting the site locally.

Now the connection needs to deal with the daily business load and email server only

whats the second best thing? (Will need static ip/unlimited)
 
Well the firm does not have the thousands for a leased line.

Mainly email bulk

the odd ftp to web hosting firm and light daily browsing
 
2 Business ADSL Lines with 2 mx records?

This is the cheap option we've done in the past, I guess it depends on how much you value your connection reliability, can the business run without it?
 
The big question is: IF the internet was unavailable, how much would it cost you per hour in lost productivity?

I'm sure you've seen posts here with people going "My internet was out I lost a MASSIVE CONTRACT because of this, How dare the cheapest residential connection I could find have downtime?!?!!!!!!1111one". Don't be that person.
 
Why not get two ADSL2+ lines and do line bonding? Or even do line bonding on two FTTC lines if you can. I intend on doing that.
 
Did you consider EFM (Ethernet First Mile)?

What about moving the bandwidth heavy applications (eg bulk e-mails) to a co-located server in a DC?
 
As far as I am aware, the department can not afford a leased line ( I was pushing for a 10/10 service)

So now the data centre is doing the hosting and our server is doing the email.

The connection going down will only kill our emails which won't shut us down as such but really I was wondering what options would be second best to leased line?
 
central london so good for everything. Someones suggested just have buisness broadband with virgin and BT?
 
We've got Spitfire SDSL in one of the London offices and the latency is epic.
Bandwidth is not great but that's SDSL for you.
 
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