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Re: [OT] Soliciting Advice on e-mail and web-hosting providers



On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 04:57:08 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:


> 
> Its not that hard to setup your own server right at home if you have
> a machine running 24/7 which 4 of the 5 on my local net do. 

I have a server, running apache. There is no way on earth I would
expose it to the Internet, I know just enough about IT security to know
that I don't know anything like enough about IT security to run a
public-facing web server safely.

> Just
> don't put it on port 80 because the ISP's block that for incoming in
> order to force you to put it on their machines.

I don't have a problem with that, my ISP doesn't block anything, I run
a mail server.

-- 
Joe


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