On Sunday 29 August 2010 10:00:03 [email protected] wrote: > I've used dyndns for hosting my home server for a while now, but I've > finally bitting the bullet and gotten my own real domain with crazy > domains now (was dirt cheap) the problem is that I'm not sure I know > how to get it to work with my home connection and the dynamic IP i'm > using at the moment. > > the two choices are obviously DYNDNS and no-ip in this situation, but > I'm wondering if there's a way around this? > > I think I might be able to use ddclient on my server and have it > somehow point to my crazy domains page and make sure it updates it > with the right IP, but i'm not sure it it'll actually be able to do it > right http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddclient/ - I know the program > does work with a dyndns account but has anyone used something like > that to keep updating generic domain names with dynamic home IPs? > Anyway i've installed it on my Linux server that's running apache but > I'm not sure if i can configure it for this situation. > > Any other suggestions? > I'm thinking that if it has to come to it i'll have to move the domain > name off crazy domains then onto no-ip, though trying to avoid it as > all this will be a waste of money otherwise.
An ISP that gives you a static IP eg http://amnet.net.au is IMHO the only way to go. All other options are heartache. What do you want your server to do? Lots of work (because they could not make gallery work, which I did: http://honeytreephotography.com.au and http://honeytreephotography.com.au/gallery2/main.php ) but their WWW hosting is $2/month and that includes mail hosting. I do host my own server, WWW Mail, DNS but having setup honeytree for my daughter it is clear that their offer is very tempting indeed and with hindsight it is pretty good. They host on 64 bit CentOS 5 servers. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
