The trouble is...everyone is used to www.info-newt.com. Switching it
to dyndns would be confusing, break all the links one web sites
everywhere, etc.
Thanks for the ideas, though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McEwen <bmcewen_at_cowboy.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:40:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [NTLK] infonewt.com
>
>
> >I was thinking about just switching to @Home for internet access;
> it's
> >faster, cheaper, and they get it installed much faster (a couple of
> days
> >rather than 10 days or more)....
> >.but due to the Code Red virus, they've
> >shut off access to port 80 so you can't run a web server. So I
> can't use
> >them for Info-Newt serving.
>
> But you could host it on their server fine, you're just stuck ftp'ing
> your
> local copy up when you make changes. A bit of a pain, but if you
> used
> dyndns for your domain, you can just redirect it to your
> people.athome.com/infonewt account (or whatever they have set up for
> public pages) is called). Should work just fine, I think. and be
> transparent to most.
>
> I'm just setting up stuff that way here (mediaone.net/comcast, but
> @home will be the provider soon (currently RR) (it's all a mess and
> everyone seems to own each other :); bummer about the incoming port
> 80
> block, but I can see what they have done that. Stupid Windows/MSoft
> anyway.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
>
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