[PLUG] Website hosting at home

[Sandy Herring]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Eric House wrote: 
> > If I want them to assign a static IP address to me, I do think I
> > must get a business license from them. I'm assuming that if you want
> > to host a web site you need static IP address.
> 
> This isn't true.  You can use a free service like zoneedit or dyndns
> to bind a dynamic IP address to a domain name that you own.  Use
> something like ez-ipupdate to update the binding every time you're
> assigned a new IP address.
[...]
> In all, I see no reason to pay extra for a static IP address.

This article does a decent job of explaining how to skirt port 80
blocking (kist ignore the IIS config crap)...

http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/sbs-webserver-on-a-different-port-number.html

Sandy (yet another host-it-at-home jockey)
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