On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I dont have money to buy domain or interested so, I installed apache in my > system, Registered with freedns.afraid.org and assigned a subdomain for my > ipaddress. Now anyone using that domain name can access the site hosted in > my system.
Have you paid the extra Rs. for a static IP address? Default is dynamic by most ISPs. You could have just as easily registered a host on one of the DynDNS free domains. > I did this for learning purpose and also it is easy to share any files to my > friends by asking them to download from my server instead of uploading to > another site and sending a link to them. Great. Beware of upstream and downstream bandwidth from your location to the ISP. 256 Kbps is the standard which is approx. 25 KB/s of usable transfer speed. N users connecting to your server will get about 25/N KB/s. > In order to shorten the subdomain name to "xyz.co.cc", I did registration in > co.cc and thought to use url forwarding option but they said my ip address > is in blocked list and inorder to host server i have to signup in bsnl. Most ISP's (world wide) IP blocks are in some RBL or the other :) Hosting SMTP server is a pain but web server should be OK. > My question is hosting webserver and using freedns to allow people to access > my system is legal or not? IIRC, commercial DSL tariffs do allow hosting services in your location. The answer would be in the fine print of your ISP's terms of use. There is no general answer. > Is there anyother way to host webserver in my system other than above > method? Register a host with DynDNS.com + on a different port on the WAN and have that port forwarded to your internal system? e.g. http://yourhostname.dyndns.com:8888. Switching ports may not work with L7 filters within your ISP's cloud, if they do not allow it. -- Arun Khan A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
