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Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD for my personal website: collocation, cloud, etc.
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From: Dale Scott <dalescott@shaw.ca>
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:48:37 -0700 (MST)
To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>
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> On Dec 27, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com>=
 wrote:
> ...
> 1. Buy and run machines from home and figure out a scheme to deal with
> my dynamic IP address

I use the "noip" port in the ports tree with noip.com's dynamic dns service=
 (free if you can live with a subdominant-type URL). For the most part it w=
orks fine. My ISP doesn't care, although they my upstream bandwidth is only=
 a third of the downstream rate. The only weirdness is my employer's firewa=
ll seems to block portions of my web site ("for my own safety"), but this c=
ould be due more to my specific config.=20

Dale