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



On Sunday 06 December 2015 14:38:27 Joe wrote:

> 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.
>
Obviously you don't trust your router.  Mine has been reflashed with 
DD-WRT.  Nothing comes in that I don't let in.

> > 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.

And thats a headache I don't think I want to contemplate.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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