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RamsusX · June 25th, 2003

Yes, you have to have your computer on for the website to be up. Your address on the Internet is the same as your IP address as well, unless you buy a domain name or get a subdomain set up with a DNS.

http://www.dyndns.org/ offers free subdomains with DNS (as opposed to a redirection service). They also have clients you can install that automatically update their DNS server every time your IP address changes. It's also free if you just get a subdomain. If you own a domain name you can use that as well.

Gamer1:
30KB/s eh? Yeah, that's twice my upload speed.

Anyway, the 5 tips and stuff are just for people who haven't tried this stuff before.

I never much liked the idea of updating something manually whenever my IP address changes. I prefer having an actual name attached to my IP via DNS over redirection anyway, so cjb.net is out for me.

I have a Pentium 233Mhz PC with 64MB SDRAM and a 2GB HD with Debian Linux set up as a webserver (Apache with PHP and MySQL), a mail server, and an ftp server (real users only). So far it seems to be working with dyndns.org, but I only tried setting all of this up tonight. Everything's secured down, and the only ports available (redirected from my router) are the absolute minimum needed (21, 25, 80).

I think I'll install squirrelmail on it so I can easily check the mail on this machine from my other computer.

June 25th, 2003	#91 (permalink)
RamsusX Ramsus K Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 461	Yes, you have to have your computer on for the website to be up. Your address on the Internet is the same as your IP address as well, unless you buy a domain name or get a subdomain set up with a DNS. http://www.dyndns.org/ offers free subdomains with DNS (as opposed to a redirection service). They also have clients you can install that automatically update their DNS server every time your IP address changes. It's also free if you just get a subdomain. If you own a domain name you can use that as well. Gamer1: 30KB/s eh? Yeah, that's twice my upload speed. Anyway, the 5 tips and stuff are just for people who haven't tried this stuff before. I never much liked the idea of updating something manually whenever my IP address changes. I prefer having an actual name attached to my IP via DNS over redirection anyway, so cjb.net is out for me. I have a Pentium 233Mhz PC with 64MB SDRAM and a 2GB HD with Debian Linux set up as a webserver (Apache with PHP and MySQL), a mail server, and an ftp server (real users only). So far it seems to be working with dyndns.org, but I only tried setting all of this up tonight. Everything's secured down, and the only ports available (redirected from my router) are the absolute minimum needed (21, 25, 80). I think I'll install squirrelmail on it so I can easily check the mail on this machine from my other computer.