[Discuss] Colocation [was: Re: Changes for VLUG]

[pw]

Hello,

You're totally allowed to have a web page on your home connection.
You may need to use port 8080 or some such though instead of default 80.


You can even use postfix on your server is you use one
of your supplied home email  accounts with sasl-auth
and relayhost. This helps with outgoing emails that need
to be sent from active systems like Joomla or Plone.

The easiest way is to set up a FRAME at your provider base
page that contains the front page of your home web server.

ie: http://somebodyshouse.shaw.ca/webpage/index.html

<frameset>
<frame name="face_frame" src="http://YOUR IP ADDRESS 
HERE:8080/index.html" />
<noframes>
<a href="http://YOUR IP ADDRESS HERE:8080/index.html">My Home Page</a>
</noframes>
</frameset>


Then you just need to monitor if your home router changes IP address.
If so you just have your computer upload a fresh version of the FRAMES 
page to your ISP index.html with the new IP address.



Peter


On 14-02-13 03:26 PM, Patrick wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:23:49 -0800
> Bernie C. Till bctill-at-ece.uvic.ca |Nixnik-sneaking| wrote:
>
>> Hi Patrick --
>>
>> Thanks for the tip!
>>
>> I just talked to Uniserve and I'm very impressed with their can-do attitude!
>>
>> They don't have any co-location facilities in Victoria, but they can provide
>> all the connectivity I can eat at any address I want over here.
>>
>> For example, 50 Mbps down / 10 Mbps up, with unlimited transport and 2 IP
>> addresses for 75 bucks a month.
>
> Right on.  :-)
>
> I didn't get a completely clear answer on residential.  The
> general rule of thumb was, as long as it's not malicious, not
> maxing-out your bandwidth, doesn't interfere with others' use
> of the network [which overlaps with the bandwidth-hogging
> thing], no problem.  It's also hard to answer that with a
> definitive yes or no, because the phrase `running a server'
> gives no sense of scale, could mean anything from `I want my
> own home-page' to `I want to be Google.'
>
> Trying to be Google over a household connection is definitely
> out.
>
> Actually, it was a pretty unusual question.  The first person I
> talked to passed me along to someone more experienced, who, after
> figuring out what the question was, passed me to the web-hosting
> tech support.  *Then* it got informative.
>
> Doing this via a small business account removes a *lot* of doubt,
> but even that has its limits.
>
> He said I could get a better answer from Sales, but I'd already
> been on the phone for a while, and it seemed a bit much for a
> hypothetical [for me, for now] question.  I am tempted though.
>
> Sounds like you already got a better answer.  :-)
>
>
>>
>> Sweet!
>>
>> -- Bernie.
>
> Patrick.
>