Pointing Hosted web to home server

[rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org (Rusty Shackleford)]

With the amount of traffic they generate I think it was less than 100 hits a
day mixing the two for now would not be a huge problem.  They just dont want
to spend any money, until they have more commign in.

On 5/28/07, Martin Owens <doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> This seems rather absurd, do they want a webserver or a storage
> server? it's not good to mix them up.
>
> On 28/05/07, Rusty Shackleford <rusty-5uWQAetEYB7jY0qkv+UzOQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > They basically want to keep their existing hardware, not pay more per
> month
> > for hosting and be able to on a windows machine or a linux machine give
> the
> > address of their web site to access their shared storage at one of their
> > homes instead of having to type the ip as comcast sometimes changes the
> ip
> > that goes to your house.  I was looking into using an srv record in dns
> but
> > it seems like that will not work.  They want to upgrade eventually but
> not
> > yet.  This is a pro bono job for my best friends cousin.  None of them
> are
> > technical people and they were told t hat it would be easy to do what I
> am
> > asking but I told them I was not sure.  I had suggested a better web
> host
> > such as slice host which could double as a shared storage but when they
> > revealed that they have about 10 - 15 gb of data on their shared storage
> > freenas already they did not want to pay that price.  I have worked more
> > with larger customers who can afford a system in a data center or
> something
> > similar.
> >
> > On 5/28/07, Bill Horne <bill-CIZd1d4GmLheoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Rusty Shackleford wrote:
> > > > I had suggested using something like slicehost but they want to work
> > > with
> > > > what they already have.  They are using comcast for an isp and they
> > > > seem to
> > > > have no problems currently.  The worst part about working for
> someone
> > > > like
> > > > this is no matter what in the end you have to do what they say no
> > > > matter how
> > > > bad of a setup it is.
> > >
> > > Mr. Shackleford,
> > >
> > > I do not understand what your customers are trying to accomplish.
> Please
> > > provide a more complete explanation.
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > > Bill Horne
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