On Tuesday October 10 2017 15:41, you wrote to me:
MvdV>> Indeed. Anyway, I have learned my lesson. After having made use MvdV>> of a variety of free services, some run by a compamny, some run MvdV>> by an individual sysop, I have switched to a paid service. It MvdV>> only costs a few Euro a year and a paid service can not shut MvdV>> down at whim overnight.
MR> Unfortunately that's wishful thinking. I've seen several sudden MR> shutdowns of services over the years.
A company providing a paid service can not discontinue the service at whim overnight. That would be a breach of contract. Of course they can go bankrupt, but that does not happen all that often. A free service provided by an individual sysop can evaporate just like that. I have seen it happen with fidosoft.de.
MR> But yes, the probability of a paid service being discontinued suddenly MR> is lower than of a free service.
That is my point.
MR> And it's a good idea to have at least two DynDNS services, in case one MR> of them has an outage or being DDoSed.
It depends on how reliable the service must be. If one needs the service for one's bussines, it would certainly be wise to have redundancy. If it is just for Fidonet... it is not the end of the world if a node is occasionally down for a couple of hours. I have an account with eurodns.com for over a decade now and they have never been down, Not that I have noticed anyway.
