[Gllug] hosting on a ADSL machine

[tet at accucard.com]

>I am connected to the Internet using BT (btworld) ADSL
>line. I have a fixed IP address. I would like to host
>my domain Web pages on a ADSL machine. Will I have any
>problems hosting pages on it? Any DNS problems? I know
>that I can not change a rev-DNS but for small website
>it shouldn't be a problem.

Depends on what sort of ADSL you've got. If it's fully routed, then
no problems (although it'll be slow -- remember you've only got a
512K upload speed, which is what people accessing your site will
see).

You'll need to get your ISP to set up DNS entries to point to your
static IP address. Unless you have good reason to do otherwise (e.g.,
messing around with databases, playing with server configurations etc.)
you're usually better off using your ISPs web servers anyway. Even for
databases, there are ISPs that provide that as an option (e.g., Freedom
2 Surf provide MySQL or PostgreSQL databases to customers).

Tet

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