Me and a couple of friends have a website where we put photo's up of our parties etc, so it's a low traffic site. I was wondering, would I be able to host on my FreeBSD server at home using MyWireless, or do they firewall port 80. IF they do, does anyone know what ports they firewall?
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According the MyWireless FAQ, you may do this (and they do not firewall that port, or others like ftp, check the FAQ for details), so long as the site you host is not a very busy site.
Because you have a dynamic IP address (often different IP address every time you connect to the Sentech network), there is a problem of finding the website. The solution is dynamic DNS, as described in this thread: http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2134. You'll have to check if they have dynamic DNS clients that run on BSD, or if not try a different dynamic DNS service that does (or else write your own client
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Because you have a dynamic IP address (often different IP address every time you connect to the Sentech network), there is a problem of finding the website. The solution is dynamic DNS, as described in this thread: http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2134. You'll have to check if they have dynamic DNS clients that run on BSD, or if not try a different dynamic DNS service that does (or else write your own client
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<br />According the MyWireless FAQ, you may do this (and they do not firewall that port, or others like ftp, check the FAQ for details), so long as the site you host is not a very busy site.
Because you have a dynamic IP address (often different IP address every time you connect to the Sentech network), there is a problem of finding the website. The solution is dynamic DNS, as described in this thread: http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2134. You'll have to check if they have dynamic DNS clients that run on BSD, or if not try a different dynamic DNS service that does (or else write your own client.
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Aahh great thanks for the info. Yeah DynDNS is no problem
<br />According the MyWireless FAQ, you may do this (and they do not firewall that port, or others like ftp, check the FAQ for details), so long as the site you host is not a very busy site.
Because you have a dynamic IP address (often different IP address every time you connect to the Sentech network), there is a problem of finding the website. The solution is dynamic DNS, as described in this thread: http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2134. You'll have to check if they have dynamic DNS clients that run on BSD, or if not try a different dynamic DNS service that does (or else write your own client
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Aahh great thanks for the info. Yeah DynDNS is no problem
Just remember that your connection is asymetrical. Your outgoing capacity is less than your incoming. People browsing your site will be using your outgoing capacity when viewing the site. So if you have a 128k package you will only be able to serve sites at 64k. Also this is a contended platform, far from ideal for a hosting environment.
Yes, definitely not good for any 'real' hosting, for the reasons you cite, but fine for e.g. Phazer's app, and other real low-volume (and non 'mission critical' e.g. company) websites. The outgoing traffic limit is generally half of the download capacity, so for 128 it's 64, for 256 it's 128, etc. I was wondering though, does that mean you get a total 128 (down) *plus* 64 (up) (128+64=192 total), or does outgoing traffic lower your incoming traffic? (128 total)