How (in terms of which parameters) is a "professional-grade" broadband connection different from a "consumer" one?

Posted by odemarken on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by odemarken
Published on 2012-11-16T09:09:31Z Indexed on 2012/11/16 11:03 UTC
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By "professional" I mean here:

  1. The kind you can get at a datacenter for your server
  2. The kind you can get at an office that would be good enough for hosting web and mail server with low to medium traffic. (Please ignore other aspects of "the self-hosting problem" and focus only on broadband connection quality).

Another way to frame this question would be "what parameters should office broadband have to compare to a datacenter-provided one for the purposes of self-hosting".

The knowledge I have gathered so far is in answer format below.

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