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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
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 Posted - 22 November 2003 : 22:27:40
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Sorry if I ask way too many questions...But I don't know of any other good places to ask this kind of stuff :(
My Webhost account is about to expire and I don't want to keep paying it if I now have the resources at home to host my small site for free.
What I have:
Server: AMD Duron 700Mhz 640MB RAM, Windows Server 2003 + SQL Server 2000. Plenty of Disk space (Several Hundred Gigs).
Internet: 2.5M-3M / 256K-384K
My problem:
I need DNS, I can either use ZoneEdit DNS or run my own DNS...I think I want to go ZoneEdit, but I'm not sure.
I need Mail, but Port 25 is blocked, Any workarounds for this?
I want it to seem like my website is on port 80 (http://railway-forum.com/ Not: http://railway-forum.com:XX/), how can this be done?
Unrelated; anyone install PHP on IIS6.0 yet? It said it would work right after I installed it, but PHP pages come up as 404's (But I'm sure they exist).
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 22 November 2003 : 22:33:23
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I strongly recommend DNS2GO - http://www.dns2go.com (20 bucks a year for 6 domains).
I've been hosting myself for 2+ years using Windows Server 2000 with MS SQL 2000 on a Pentiuum /// 750Mhz on the same upload speeds you have and have had great success with it.
Why is port 25 blocked? You can change that in your IIS Manager, but there may be some caveats based on how you're going to use it. |
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 22 November 2003 : 22:51:09
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dns2go.com :
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
Server busy or unable to fulfill request. The server is unable to fulfill your request due to extremely high traffic or an unexpected internal error. Please attempt your request again (if you are repeatedly unsuccessful you should notify the site administrator). (Location Code: 25)
You getting that too?
I've never setup a Mail Server before, but if it uses a non-standard port; how would mail be sent? User@Server:XX? And if it's Snitz, would the server have to be set to server:XX? |
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Jeepaholic
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 23 November 2003 : 01:23:56
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| AFAIK, SMTP has to be received on port 25. There's no way for another mail server to know where to attempt sending to, and you can't specify a port within DNS. So...in that regard, you're stuck. Of course, the users of the mail server can set up any port they want...it's mail coming from another location that will not find your server unless it's on 25. |
Al Bsharah
Aholics.com
Jeepaholics Anonymous
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Network Insight
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 23 November 2003 : 03:38:35
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www.no-ip.com may have the answer for you. They do DNS, mail re-routing, if blocked ports, etc... so you can run a mail server and all that good stuff. I have used the service and it is great.
http://www.no-ip.com/services.php/mail/smtp |
Erick
Snowmobile Fanatics
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