General Discussion - Domain name at home

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Domain name at home

toak69

2003-01-26, 5:44 am

I realize this is superbowl day, but if someone could take a few minutes while waiting for the game to start to give me some ideas on this I would greatly appreciate it.

Now for the question. What would be the most cost effective way to have a named domain on a server running from my home? I would like to be able to handle around 500meg-1 gig of band width a day. So am I clear? I would like to know the possible ways of having my own registered domain name on a server run from my home. I know our local cable internet provider says on their website they only have dynamic IP's. I have heard of 1/4 T1's. About how much do these cost? Would DSL work for this?

You might be asking yourself why I would want this. Well I am currently working on my A+ Cert and plan to go for MCSA in the near future. As I'm sure most of you know, for certs like windows2000 server, there is alot of information about DNS and domains. I figured this would be a good way to learn, plus save me the expense of having someone else host my website.

I would appreciate approximate prices for the alternatives. Money is an object to me, one I don't have a whole lot of. LOL

thanks

toak

cruss575

2003-01-26, 7:26 am

Getting a domain name is pretty easy - go to a site like www.networksolutions.com to register a domain name of your choosing.

The second piece is to register your domain name with a company that can do dynamic dns on the internet. there are many, such as www.tzo.com.

That's it! the prices for those are on the web site.

These are the cheap requirements; your costs are going to be centered around monthly bandwidth costs.

If you have a cable modem, this is probably against your agreement because cable modems rely on a heavy download/light upload model for network functionality. By trying to push 1 Gb upstream, you will probably be noticed and told to cease and desist. If you have a DSL line, you may be ok, if it is somewhat symmetrical, like 768k up/768k down.

Either way, you are over 50/month for cable and probably 75-100/month for decent DSL. Check out dslreports.com for companies operating in your area and their approximate prices. if you can get speakeasy in your area, they are pretty good at a reasonable price.

As a last note, if you are doing this for the w2k exams, I wouldn't bother as you can pass without going to this measure. if you are doing to learn, then go for it! Remember security, though - if you are going to run w2k and iis, then you have to keep up on patches (of course, you have to patch *nix and apache as well, it's just not a full-time job

and make sure you segment your network with a firewall of some sort that can create a dmz, then put the web server in there.

ccieToBe

2003-01-26, 1:58 pm

A residential cable or DSL service (~$50/month) plus a dynamic dns service would work if you just want to do this for learning. I did this for long time and since I wasn't pushing an major traffic, my provider never said anything. If you're going to be doing anything commercial with it definately get a line from a provider that offers static IPs and allows for this in their SLA. Speakeasy, Covad and Transedge all allow for this. And yeah, if you want to do this consider doing it right - setup a Linux or BSD server.

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