Please 'leak' Fedora 8
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.com
Wed Nov 7 00:40:48 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 09:18 +1030, Tim wrote:
> If you like the idea of a permanent address, never having to tell
> friends to contact you on a new one, etc., then register your own
> domain
> name, and pick any company that you like to host your mail (and any
> other services you want). And if they begin to suck, you can pick up
> your bat and ball and go somewhere else, and still use your own domain
> name and e-mail addresses.
>
> It's well worth it, there's any number of hosting services that are
> reasonably priced. And, as their business is purely hosting, they can
> be a lot better at it than ISPs, many of whom just care about getting
> money off you to provide a connection to the internet.
What I currently do, is have my domain registered via godaddy.com with
the dns pointing to dyndns.com.
At dyndns.com I have my domain name and aliases setup.
On my computer (or in this case, the server one), I have ddclient that
runs and checks for an IP every so often and reports it to dyndns.com.
And then I run a little program called dnsmasq to help resolve local
machines to run without having to resolve all the time and being slow.
Then I just setup my server machine to accept emails, web, ftp, etc.
And I run a linksys router between my cable modem and my computers.
Might not be the best way, but I basically pay per year for domain name
and dyndns service, maybe $30/year or so, give or take a few. But it
works and lets me keep on top of administering and not having to change
my emails all the time.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"The best lil town on Earth!"
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