Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 22:09, Oskar Teran wrote:

> Tom Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'm thinking it might be kind of cool (or keen to you EU folks) to
> > run my own website from home. I don't know what I would do with it yet,
> > but not the typical "here's my kids, here's my dog, here's our family
> > reunion in Death Valley, blah...blah...blah". I might start up a local
> > Land Rover club in my area and might choose to host it. 
> > 
> > So, with that being said:
> > 1) How should I do this?
> I'd suggest looking into dynamic dns....this way you don't need to pay 
> for a static IP address.

I'm not paying extra. It's kind of a long story, but the local cable ISP
sold off to Verizon...who sold off to Adelphia. Thru both transitions we
got to keep our IP. Pretty sweet! They tried to get me off it, but I
said no way!

> > 2) What server app should I use?
> what exactly do you want to run or show?  I'd suggest apache for the web 
> server....
> > 3) What is the downside to doing this? (I don't think I'll get 500 hits
> > a day). 
> getting static IP address is more $$, so using a dynamic DNS service 
> helps you to save $$$

See above

> > 4) Will this have any effect on my system on a day to day basis?
> > 5) I'm running a static, private IP on my machine from behind a
> > firewall. Problem?
> well...now that you mention it...forget dynamic dns..you have a static IP!!
> If setup correctly, it shouldn't be a problem
> 

Thanks for the information!

Tom


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Tom Nielsen
Neuro Logic Systems, Inc.
805.389.5435 x18
www.neuro-logic.com