sKunKbad Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I have interest to run my own server, but have only had simple WAMP (on Win XP), and LAMP (on Ubuntu) experience. I understand nameservers in regards to what I have dealt with from owning domains and using many shared hosting accounts over the years, but how does a person go about going online and having nameservers set for their own server? I'm guessing that I have to have a static IP, and that I register that IP with somebody, but need more info. I have Verizon's FIOS service, and understand that if I upgrade to business class that they allow me to run a server, but I'd like to know more about getting the server online vs. what I have been doing with my WAMP and LAMP installs, which has just been set up to develop websites locally before uploading to a shared hosting account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadownet Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 I actually use no-ip.com for my server name. No-ip.com provides managed DNS, dynamic DNS , domain registration, email and many other domain related services to over 5 million customers worldwide. It is free to register at www.no-ip.com and from there you can pick a name like yourserver.no-ip.info or yourserver.myftp.org and so on. They have a lot of free domain names. With no-ip you do not have to have a static ip address because they have software you can download that will constantly monitor your ip address and if it changes it will update no-ip.com and your server will continue running with no interruptions. I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 Thanks for the reply. I have been learning a lot in the last couple of days. I was checking out another free service at http://zoneedit.com , which I think is probably similar to no-ip.com. This would be my first attempt at running a web server, and I'm excited to see if I can get it going and not get hacked. I'm thinking about installing the new Ubuntu 8.04 Server on an old PC. I don't know if Ubuntu is the best choice, but I was figuring it might be the easiest, only because it's the only one I have seen installation tutorials for. The truth is I just don't know, so if you have any suggestions just let me know. I'm willing to read books and learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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