On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
> As for port 80, what I can say is that running a web server from home can > work with DyDNS but it's a pain in the neck. The one friend I have doing > that on Optimum Online Boost constantly has problems related to his IP > address changing and his dynamic DNS entry not being updated, thus being > unable to get to his own website when he's remote. This all gets a lot > easier when you rent some kind of "box" (which could be a virtual machine) > with a static IP address. > > And, wait... if you already have your own mail server then why not install > a web server onto it? > You can funnel http requests to dyndns to a non-standard port on your webserver? This solves any issue I'd have with getting FIOS when I move then. It's just plain easier to push a huge file onto your webserver at home and give your friends/family a url than it is to push all that data up to a remote machine to do the same.
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