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Re: Exposing my home website to the internet.

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Exposing my home website to the internet.
Date 2014-09-28 19:20 +0100
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On 27/09/14 22:38, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> On 09/27/2014 03:41 PM, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>> I want the capability to mount web pages on my own web server
>> (Slackware and Apache) and expose these pages to the internet. My
>> local computer has a fixed url address in the 192.168.etc series
>> which does not change.This allows me to access my router. My router
>> in turn connects to my internet modem which works with my internet
>> provider,in my case comcast.net. This latter connection is DHCP I am
>> pretty sure.
>>
>> The first question is, how do I sniff out this last internet address?
>> I presume it stays constant until I have a power failure or other
>> interruption, in which case I would have to sniff it out again.
>>
>> The second question is, given knowledge of this internet address, how
>> do I give the outside world access to it?
>>
>> If necessary I can dedicate a spare computer to this function by
>> connecting it to my router. I have a port available. This would
>> protect may main machine from crashing due to overload.
>>
>> All answers appreciated.
>>
>> John C.
>
> My ISP will not allow me to run a server on my machine(s) unless I tell
> them and pay an additional monthly fee of $100. This includes a static
> IP address, so I do not need to fumble around looking for it.
>
For $100 aq month you can rent a dedicated virtual server omn a IP 
backbone that will be infinitely better than a home one

I think THEY start at about $10 a month

> Verizon.
>


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Exposing my home website to the internet. "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2014-09-27 12:41 -0700
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Andreas Kohlbach <sep14.5.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-09-27 15:49 -0400
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-09-27 20:47 +0000
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. parspes <parspes@gmail.com> - 2014-09-27 16:34 -0500
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2014-09-27 17:38 -0400
    Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-28 19:20 +0100
      Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-28 22:54 +0100
        Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2014-09-29 17:45 -0400
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Axel Bergerhoff <axel@da.heim> - 2014-09-28 01:53 +0200
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-28 09:39 +0100
    Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-28 19:22 +0100
      Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-28 22:54 +0100
        Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-29 11:49 +0100
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2014-09-28 23:22 -0700

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