Hosting Websites

[GOSCO]

Ive seen discussions on hosting more than one Website, we can do that with a static IP address and a DNS server thats not a problem.

I also read another thread about becoming an ISP which is completley the other end of the scale.

From a personal point of view I would like to be able to host my own website. Obviously for one website you can't be connected 100% of the time, thats just silly! But the problem boils down to my ISP dialing my Server.

I don't think this is possible, as anyone got any thoughts?

Andy
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[StarTAC]

it is possible.. u may setup a modem on your server and the ISP would simply configure one of their modems to auto dial your number at a certain pre-determined interval.. and a connection can be made between the two... it is up to the ISP to then serve your web site on your behalf.. although that would be some advanced or alternative form of DHCP, unless a specific IP can be obtained from the ISP upon log on...

regards.

 

[GOSCO]

Hmmm...

When you say pre determined do you mean a pre determined time.

I would want my ISP to be clever enough to dial me up only when it needs to. I.e. when someone wants to view my web pages.

Is it still possible now?

Andy
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[StarTAC]

if the ISPs web server is Linux, a perl script can be written to activate the dialler when Apache tries to parse the request for the web site, although this would mean that the ISP would have to make an entry of the customer's web site in their web server....

one other way would be for the ISP to dial into the customer's box on a regular basis to pull a copy of the updated web site, and then save it on the ISPs cache server.. such as Squid.... the cache server would then run in accelerator mode, so that all requests for the customer's web site would be served from the cache server instead... before the request even gets into the ISPs core network..... the problem with this approache would come when the customer decides to have a database drive web site, which would mean more and more replication over the dial-up network to update the database...

AKNIT

 

[SteveTheGeek]

Technically it's feasible, but if you can find an ISP that'll go to that kind of trouble for you (to say nothing of being capable of implementing it) instead of insisting that you host your site on their webserver(s), please let us know that ISP's name!

Having a webserver inhouse invites serious security considerations, if you're not up on security you may want to let the ISP take the webhosting anyway...
-Steve