I've been hosting my own domain(s) so long I had forgotten there was another way to do it. If you have a fixed IP and reasonably reliable connection it's pretty easy: BIND, Postfix, Apache, plus anything else you might want. For domestic grade service, you can run all that on the same box you use as a desktop. I use bur.st for secondary nameserving, but there are others.
The main downside is that server buzzing away in the corner all day and night. I'm not really convinced it's economically effective, but for control freaks like me it works. On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 22:27 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > I have to switch ISPs soon. Currently my ISP handles my domain name hosting > and rego. > > I can easily take care of the domain rego mysel and save $$. > > I'm wondering about hosting my domain name on a linux box. I only use > the domain for email at the current time, so I doubt the DNS service > hosted locally would incur that much traffic. > > There has been mention of free domain hosting services. Perhaps even dyndns > could be used. > > What's the opinion of Sluggers: host or not to host? > > > > cheers > rickw > > > -- > _________________________________ > Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services > > George Bush will go down in history, I hope our country doesn't go > down with him. > -- James Glaser > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
