Running Web server on ATT BroadBand

[phil at 1918.com (Phil Buckley)]

I've been using no-ip.com for the past 6 months or so, and it's a complete no-brainer, even if you have to redirect your web traffic to a different port. I would recommend it to anyone who has port 80 blocked, or a dynamic ip address

Phil

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On 12/3/2001 at 12:02 PM linux lover wrote:

>So when they shut down the web server, what is the
>correct action to take?
>   possible answers:  
>       nothing and wait from them to turn it back on!
>       call them?
>       go to another provider?  (who?  help me)
>       etc.   
>
>Help.  
>    Niece (linuxluva)
>--- David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
>> > I always get a kick out of it when people complain
>> about it.  I think they
>> > do a good job for what they have.  Dollars and
>> sense, I probably cost them
>> > more money than what I am worth.
>> >
>> > Thats just my .02 cents.  I seem to be fairly
>> opinionated lately.
>> >
>> > Do you agree or disagree - and why?
>> 
>> Personally, my issue is not that "they're not
>> allowing servers".  My issue
>> is that I signed up for the service with a
>> particular TOS that stated they
>> allow it, but don't support it, and they have
>> changed that TOS, while
>> raising my rates, without any recourse for me other
>> than dropping the
>> service.  I recognize the fact that they have the
>> right to, but that
>> doesn't mean I think it was a fair business thing to
>> change it in that
>> way.
>> 
>> The fact that I am running servers does not mean
>> that I use more bandwidth
>> that an adolescent boy who spends his weekends
>> downloading MP3's and
>> JPG's.  If I were, then they should terminate. 
>> Maybe other people with
>> servers use more bandwidth than I do.  The newbies
>> running Windows with no
>> firewall probably use more bandwidth when they send
>> out hundreds of email
>> messages every time a new virus comes out.
>> 
>> The fact that they are simultaneously removing
>> functionality,
>> increasing my downtime tremendously, and raising my
>> rates, is what has
>> driven me to go through the very frustrating
>> experience of getting DSL.
>> Yes, I am *BEGGING* three companies to cooperate
>> long enough to give me
>> half the bandwidth for $10/mo more, in the name of
>> static IPs, qualified
>> support staff, and not being shut down for a week
>> and a half.
>> 
>>
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