[ale] DSL static IP

[Jim]

Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
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> 	I barely trust Bellsouth, Comcast even less, to provide any reliable
> service to which to host a server on so you must have been daft or
> disregarded when I mentioned a hosted Xen VPS. The servers I run at my
> location are for internal development and thus not reachable from the
> outside except via VPN.
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I have the static IP address option from Bellsouth and have had zero 
problems hosting a web server from home.  Granted, it's not a heavily 
used web site, but for directing the occasional family member or friend 
to view docs/pix it works fine.  I sure wouldn't want to run a business 
on it, however.

 Bellsouth either doesn't know I'm doing it or doesn't care.  When I had 
a dynamic address, I used dydns or freedns (I forget which) to follow my 
ip address around and that worked most of the time.  The only time I can 
recall not being able to get to my web site is when the machine that 
hosts the site was down.

Jim.