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Hosting a website at home

ora8i — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:26:35 GMT

I have full fiber so its reasonably fast, am I allowed to run a website from home?

If so do Plusnet have any doc's or 'how to's' that would be relevant?

Thanks All.

Re: Hosting a website at home

jab1 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:30:14 GMT

I see no reason why you can't host one, but as Plusnet pulled out hosting quite some time ago, I would think there are very few staff who would know the first thing about it. I also doubt there is any documentation.

Re: Hosting a website at home

Mustrum — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:32:36 GMT

Amazon - other retailers are available - has lots of guides!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739706706/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=1739706706&pd_rd_w=E2cIv&content-id=amzn1.sym.84ea1bf1-65a8-4363-b8f5-f0df58cbb686&pf_rd_p=84ea1bf1-65a8-4363-b8f5-f0df58cbb686&pf_rd_r=J66Z2K7EFYCEN1ZJEK2G&pd_rd_wg=Rif6T&pd_rd_r=4f52bd10-0fd4-4b3d-b11e-6afddbc96954&s=books&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw

Re: Hosting a website at home

Champnet — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:44:24 GMT

It's easy. Point your domain to your home external IP address, on the router point port at internal device running web server. Come back if you need help......

Re: Hosting a website at home

Baldrick1 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 21:19:19 GMT

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Thread moved from Broadband to Everything Else

Re: Hosting a website at home

corringham — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 09:50:03 GMT

I've been running web sites and mail servers from home for more than 20 years. If you have a reasonably fast connection (upload speed is perhaps more important than download speed) and a static IP address it can work well (you can do it with a dynamic address, but that has extra hoops to jump through).

The first step is to get your server set up - there are a number of different engines available, and it will depend on whether you are running on Windows or Linux, or another OS.

Then you need a domain, set up its DNS to point to your IP address, forward the appropriate ports to your server, and job done.

Do make sure your setup is secure - you will get hammered by wannabe hackers (my mail and web servers receive several thousand attempted logins and other probes every day).

Re: Hosting a website at home

greygit1 — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:40:39 GMT

Agree 100%. Keeping the s/w patched and updated is an 'overhead' that has to be built into the decision.

Re: Hosting a website at home

ora8i — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:57:37 GMT

Thanks All.

I was more concerned ghat it might be prohibited than anything else.

Ora