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Thread ID: 52996 2005-01-04 23:50:00 Do you want free web hosting? robsonde (120) PC World Chat
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310680 2005-01-05 08:29:00 right now i am on dial up......

if i offer hosting i will get some sort of capped ASDL.

I have friends running boxes off 128K jetstart and it works surprisingly well.

You just have to watch that traffic or get a plan that just slows you down instead of charging you for extra MB.

You may also want to be careful with allocating shell access to your server as it is very difficult to secure. E.g. just grant it to friends/trusted users.
Webbase (265)
310681 2005-01-05 08:47:00 You may also want to be careful with allocating shell access to your server as it is very difficult to secure. E.g. just grant it to friends/trusted users.


my offer of shell access is kind of a joke... I dont think i will be offering it to anyone.

as for the connection...... thinking of a speed limited ADSL plan of some sort.
robsonde (120)
310682 2005-01-05 19:17:00 Bear in mind most home Jetstream plans prohibit the hosting of webservers etc. somebody (208)
310683 2005-01-06 00:15:00 I still stand by my "Linux distro torrent tracker" idea though

I don't know much about Torrent, but won't the news about it, such as below, make it a bit redundant?

BitTorrent (news.com.com)
Greg (193)
310684 2005-01-06 00:33:00 Bear in mind most home Jetstream plans prohibit the hosting of webservers etc.

how, do you have to agree to this?? is it in the terms and conditions, who cares its your own internet connection
Prescott (11)
310685 2005-01-06 07:06:00 how, do you have to agree to this?? is it in the terms and conditions, who cares its your own internet connection
Yup - in the Jetstream Terms of Use which you must agree to (tick the box when you sign up), it says that you may not host any server (email, web etc.) using a residential Jetstream plan. Whether or not you choose to obey those conditions is another story altogether.
somebody (208)
310686 2005-01-07 05:25:00 Orcon lets me.

I e-mailed them when I signed up (in fact it's the reason I'm with them. Static IP etc).

I have about 200MB / day going through with 192k upstream (2Mbit down) and it does work really well indeed.

I use a Windows box though, and certainly wouldn't offer any type of access. I'm only doing hosting for friends and existing customers though, as the 192k is pretty much full.

George
george12 (7)
310687 2005-01-07 08:16:00 that what i have been looking at today :-)

how many sites do you host?
robsonde (120)
310688 2005-01-07 08:33:00 anyone here that goes to high school here?
well if you do this may interest you,
do you have to log on with an enrollment number and a password when you want to use a computer at school??,and does your school have a website? i do and i have my own website hosted by the school server, so you may too.
the site will be www.xxx.school.nz (x is the name of your school) and use your log on name/number and password, hopefully your school data manager has enabled it :)
Prescott (11)
310689 2005-01-07 08:40:00 damn, looks like she changed my password :annoyed: they must of reset my password in the new year..... Prescott (11)
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