Pointing Hosted web to home server

[Patrick McCook]

This is the dynamic DNS service I use for mapping a domain
name with a changing home IP address:

http://www.no-ip.com/

...it's fairly cheap and works like a charm.


On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 23:33 -0400, Rusty Shackleford 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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> >
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