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[bob_bowen5]

Are dynamic dns through a cable modem or dsl ready to serve a website?

Just curious of your thoughts on this matter.

DSL is $29 a month, DSL with 8 fixed I/P's is $49 a month...

Wondering if I have to pay the extra 20 or if the dynamic dns services would do it....

Thanks in advance...

Bob

[webpro]

I don't really understand what you are asking but I use http://www.dyndns.com/.  I used to use the free service but tired of updating every 30 days.   I now pay the $15/yr.  I have several URLs pointing to my laptop webserver on my home DSL line.   I have never experienced a problem with them.

[bob_bowen5]

Just wondering if it will work for a website with decent volume reliably.  (Not just me checking my web at home or something).

[webpro]

I find my service to be excellent and without an issue for a few years now.   I only get 100 or so hits a day plus a bunch of script hacking crap.

[DBall]

Past Experience:

I've run a fairly large website on DSL (with fixed IP) and had no problem. In fact, I was running a text-only usenet server on the same DSL.

Couple of things to beware of:

1) Your DSL provider might be blocking incoming requests to port 80 and a bunch of others so that you can't run a server without paying more for it. Mine does.

2) With multiple machines on your DSL, you're going to have to figure out how to get the router to send requests to a particular machine. This can vary from trivial to being a real mess, depending on the router used.

[Phoenix]

I also used dyndns for a while but I wasn't running a website...it always worked great for me...

[bob_bowen5]

Do you guys that run websites direct it through one of dynamic dns's websites or do you use their dns?

Seems a bit slow running through one of their websites....

Bob

[DBall]

Back when I was running a server on DSL, I had a fixed IP and was also running a DNS server on the same machine. It ran servers for DNS, Web, ftp, eMail, and Usenet. I wasn't using dyndns. That DSL was 1.5Mbit down and 128Kbit up (later changed to 256Kbit up). That was back when I lived in California.

The DSL I'm on now, blocks ports to prevent me using it for a server. The DSL I have now is 1.5Mbit down and 512Kbit up.

[webpro]

I use them for DNS.  I have a static IP which is why I have not given up my DSL.  I run several websites off an old 2ghz turion dell laptop running Apache.  http://ee.isa-geek.net is one I use DNS from dyndns just for the hostname and DNS.  I have domains through godaddy.com and use their DNS to resolve to my laptop web server.

[bob_bowen5]

Any ideas on running multiple web servers under dynamic dns with one I/P?

[webpro]

Any ideas on running multiple web servers under dynamic dns with one I/P?

That is what I do.  I use Apache on Windows Vista Home Basic.  I have several virtual hosts.  I think I have 10 web sites hosted on my 2ghz AMD Dell 1501 laptop.  All point to a public IP which my firewall forwards to my laptop.  There are layer 4 firewalls than can look at the URL and forward to IP based on the host part of the URL.  I don't need that kind of sophistication.

[bob_bowen5]

I'll take a look at the firewall and see what it can do...

Thanks webpro Joe!