At 01:37 PM 10/7/2005, you wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:
Take-away: Do not single home. I'm shocked folks aren't figuring this out. If you are a webhoster or enterprise and your business model can not support multiple Internet pipes, than you have a suboptimal business model (to put it lightly)
Or "single-home" to a tier-2 -- or tier-1.5, or whatever you want to call it in marketing newspeak -- that provides multihoming of their own networks, and get a netblock from their space.
Often, that can be more cost effective (even these depeering situations notwithstanding) than single-homing to a tier-1.
Until your local loop to that sole provider dies, or you want to play one off another price-wise and don't want to renumber. Multihoming is backhoe insurance, backbone insurance, and portability insurance.