ISP which allows home server

[My220x]

Hey,

Do you know of any ISP's which will allow me to run a home webserver? The server will be for me to learn linux web server administration. I contacted Tiscalli but they said no.

[Geoff]

I have VM Cable. I have had a Linux box running off it for about a decade.

[pete]

Provided you don't do anything daft, demon allow it if you have a static IP.

[everton4europe]

zen. been using to host for year

[My220x]

VM seems good but I just don't want to pay £40 for the router, I am wondering if AOL will take the one back that they gave me.

[Geoff]

I have a WRT54GL, which also runs Linux (OpenWRT firmware). You'll learn a lot if you buy one of these little beasties too.

[SYSMAN_MK]

I would have thought you would be able to do this with any ISP? Using a service like No-IP - Dynamic DNS, Static DNS for Your Dynamic IP and port forwarding on your router.

I used to use this setup to access my old mac minis webserver from work.

[Geoff]

Some ISP's block the ports. Also there is sometimes a clause in the T&C and/or AUP preventing you from running servers.

[DanW]

i'm using an enta reseller (ADSL24 Broadband - Home) and they allow you to run a webserver they also give you 8ip addresses to use as well.


Dan

[FN-GM]

Who is your current ISP?

[john]

Freedom2Surf allow you to do that, you just need the correct arm of the Tiscali operation to do it you see

[My220x]

I am currently using AOL.

[SpuffMonkey]

I have VM Cable. I have had a Linux box running off it for about a decade.

I take it you're not getting hit by this new all day TSM malarky? I'm seriously thinking of ditching them after 8 years.

[browolf]

if its for your own private purposes and its just port forwarded from a router. I dont see how tiscali can stop or even know what you're doing with a random port and dynamic dns/ just ip.

[mrcrazy04]

I ran a web server with Tiscali - I think it's still going at my parent's house.
When we were with BT they used to probe my SMTP server to see if it was usable as a relay for spam.
You can also do it with Freedom2Surf - and they give static IPs which is a bonus. It was quite useful for connecting to my uTorrent machine to check my Linux distributions were downloading, and to add new ones to download.