hosting your own website

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:37:16 +1100
Peter Lieverdink <ubuntu at cafuego.net> wrote:

> > If you want to have a 100% up website you need to contact your ISP and
> > get a STATIC IP...
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > Vram
> 
> Not really. Set up an account with dyndns.org and they can host your
> domain for you, to be used with a dynamic IP. There are probably others
> companies that can do the same thing for you.
> 
> Basically, when the IP changes, you notify dyndns and they update the
> hostname record. it tends to have a 5 minuite timeout, so at worst
> you'll be unreachable for 5 minutes.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Peter.

You can automate the updates for dyndns.org or whatever dynamic dns
service you use with various utilities. One example is  ez-ipupdate ,
which is in the universe repository, so you can do

sudo apt-get install ez-ipupdate

The install will ask you some questions including your dyndns address (you
need to set that up first) and your password etc

If you need to change the details later you can run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ez-ipupdate

to change any variables. 

You might also want to check if your ISP blocks port 80 (many do). If so
you will have to assign a different port for apache to listen on, and
append that to your website address. This is of course assuming that
hosting a website is not against your ISP's terms of service ;-)

Peter

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