[muglo] Re: List Activity

Hi ya, I'm doing exactly that... serving a web site from home (well, with a 
Beige G3).

Usually your ISP provides very small web spaces... it's not even worth 
bothering with their services. You can often get as much, if not more space 
by creating a (free) www.geocities.com account and hosting your pages at one 
or more Geocities sites.

As for a static IP - Symcrapico only does dynamic IP AFAIK.

You can easily get around a dynamic IP address with a few companies. 
www.myphotos.cc will take you to DynDNS.org (I think it's ORG) where you can 
create a free sub-domain (under a variety of domains like 
myplace.myphotos.cc or harry.kicks-ass.com (or something like that) and 
many, many others).

You get an app that you run on your Mac that will occasionally update the IP 
address to which your (free) address points. In my case my router does it so 
I can set the server up without having to worry about such crap (& once my 5 
months of $25/mo runs out I'll be switching to an ISP that is both 
non-profit and provides static IPs so I won't have to worry about dynamic IP 
stuff).

As for ISPs frowning upon the practice - yes they do but if you're 
considerate and smart about it they don't really worry.

Rule #1: Don't run a commercial/organisation (not for profit for e.g.) 
server (this'll get you bounced faster than a basketball);
Rule #2: Don't run a server that shares items to which you don't have 
copyright/patents (amusingly they'll ignore this too to a great extent... 
look at the volume of P2P software that's in use);
Rule #3: Don't run a popular personal server/non-commercial server that's 
going to generate a lot of traffic.

If you're running OS X you can set up your server to also have its own 
iDisk-like functionality using WebDAV.

I'm working on a server at dun bar dot my photos dot cc (remove the spaces 
and replace dot with a .).

PS try typing in a random web page and see what kind of error page you get 
returned. I'm using IE on Windoze and it's high-jacking my custom error page 
and displaying its own instead. I'd like to know if it works.

Eric.

>From: doug rogers <dougsamu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "MUGLO Online" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [muglo] Re: List Activity
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:57:11 -0400
>
> >i'm looking at making my tangerine imac into a web server to host my web
> >site.
>
>1) Don't you have a ISP? Do they not provide Web space?
>
>2) If your ISP provides no web space, couldn't your ISP provide you with
>a steady IP number?
>
>Past this, interms of becoming your own ISP, I have no idea
>
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