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[Electron]

I have an annoyance I don't know how to solve.

I converted my PC into a web server some time ago. I used to host a few web pages (my friends kept on asking me to host their sites and I gave in every time *grumble*) and I planned to host my private forums (I did too for about 3 months) however, there is a major flaw in this. Bandwidth? No. Speed? No. Disk space? Definitely not. Address? YES!
I have a dynamic IP address so I had to configure my domain properties every time I rebooted my server-computer. Hell, if an interruption happened in the connection, I had to do it again. And again. And again. You get the picture. So I'm asking: is there any way to switch to a static IP address? For the sake of not loosing 15 minutes every time finding out what the new address is then changing everything again. Once, during a thunderstorm, a dip in the voltage caused my computer to restart. Can you guess what followed? I can't take this anymore. Does anyone have a solution?

[Fabi]

Yes, there are any static ip-adresses.
Maybe

http://www.dyndns.com/

Can help you.

[Electron]

Hmm... not really. I'll try contacting the company which provides my connection. Perhaps they'll have some answers.

[Fabi]

Here in Germany, its typical, that providers are resetting the connection after 24 hours and give a new ip-adress. Their plan is to destroy illegal download servers with this reseting.

[bgtfamily]

Well, there are multiple solutions to this problem. Some domain management systems allow for dynamic web hosting where basically it will update the settings everytime your IP address changes. Certain domain systems support dynamic ips, it just depends.

One thing is that you could contact your ISP. They could possibely have a service to provide "sticky" or static IPs for an extra fee.

Also, I would recommend also checking out http://www.no-ip.com/ . Its a nice solution for using a dynamic IP for your internal hosting. Another solution is setting up your own DNS server, but I doubt you want to go that far into network integration.

As for having no bandwidth, see if your ISP allows higher bandwidth packages, etc, mainly looking at the upload stream. Disk space... well, you can't do anything for that besides buying a bigger hard drive.

If your bent on hosting your own server, thats great, but I would maybe recommend purchasing hosting from a company, in means that nowadays hosting is pretty cheap for the amount of space and bandwidth that you get in return. And then you don't have to worry about the administrative side of it. Having your own equipment has its positive sides, being that you administer it, etc, but also its negative with the hassles of implementation and having to replace broken hardware, etc.