[COLUG] Re: Switching ISP and needing advice...

[Josh]

It depends on who you need to exchange email with.

For the past couple years, my websites and email have been hosted through 
an Embarq (was Sprint) DSL line.  I pay extra for a static IP address.

So far, the only issue I've had is exchanging email with people at my 
bank, which is a smaller local bank.  Embarq does not seem to capture port 
25 as some ISP's do.

One thing you may have problems with, even if you do have a static IP, is 
DNS.  For a while I ran my own DNS servers (as I had for a long time when 
I had colocation), but I started having problems where inbound connections 
on the DNS port would sporadically drop.  I didn't notice this with 
inbound ssh, httpd, or mail, just DNS.  The solution was to have my 
registrar (Register4less.com) host my zone files.

Later,
-J