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Hosting a website at home
24-11-2023 7:26 PM
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24-11-2023 7:30 PM
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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.
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24-11-2023 8:32 PM
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Amazon - other retailers are available - has lots of guides!
Re: Hosting a website at home
24-11-2023 8:44 PM
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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......
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24-11-2023 9:19 PM
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Thread moved from Broadband to Everything Else
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Re: Hosting a website at home
25-11-2023 9:49 AM - edited 25-11-2023 9:50 AM
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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
25-11-2023 9:40 PM
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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
27-11-2023 11:57 AM
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Thanks All.
I was more concerned ghat it might be prohibited than anything else.
Ora
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