Hey Everyone,

I've setup a domain on freedns.afraid.org for testing, and it appears
to be very simple to use and work quite well. Does anyone have
experience with it? I'm looking to host some of my domains (non-
commercial) on my home cablemodem, and I'm thinking of using these
guys to do my DNS.

Just curious ---

Alex

Alex wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I've setup a domain on freedns.afraid.org for testing, and it appears
> to be very simple to use and work quite well. Does anyone have
> experience with it? I'm looking to host some of my domains (non-
> commercial) on my home cablemodem, and I'm thinking of using these
> guys to do my DNS.
>
> Just curious ---
>
> Alex
>

Alex,

First of all, you need to ensure your ISP allows webhosting on home
modems. Many do not. They may block port 80 - or they may just cancel
your service for overuse.

Another problem is downstream speed (from your ISP to you) is typically
much higher than upstream (you to the ISP) speed - often as much as 10:1
or more (most browsing is a few bytes upload followed by several K
download).

Finally, what are you going to do when the power goes out, your cable
goes down, or you're 2 days into a 2-week vacation and your system hangs?

You'll be better off getting a hosted site. Not only do they take care
of these problems for you, but the electric bill to run your server will
probably be more than the $5/mo. or so hosting costs.

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On Feb 28, 6:50pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Alex wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
>
> > I've setup a domain on freedns.afraid.org for testing, and it appears
> > to be very simple to use and work quite well. Does anyone have
> > experience with it? I'm looking to host some of my domains (non-
> > commercial) on my home cablemodem, and I'm thinking of using these
> > guys to do my DNS.
>
> > Just curious ---
>
> > Alex
>
> Alex,
>
> First of all, you need to ensure your ISP allows webhosting on home
> modems. Many do not. They may block port 80 - or they may just cancel
> your service for overuse.
>
> Another problem is downstream speed (from your ISP to you) is typically
> much higher than upstream (you to the ISP) speed - often as much as 10:1
> or more (most browsing is a few bytes upload followed by several K
> download).
>
> Finally, what are you going to do when the power goes out, your cable
> goes down, or you're 2 days into a 2-week vacation and your system hangs?
>
> You'll be better off getting a hosted site. Not only do they take care
> of these problems for you, but the electric bill to run your server will
> probably be more than the $5/mo. or so hosting costs.


Hi Jerry,

I appriciate the input, but being a network guy for more years then I
can count, I understand the caveats of running a server at home. As I
said in my original post, this is for non-commercial domains, none of
which will be running a web server... I have a colocated site for my
commercial domains and websites. If my home looses power or if the
cablemodem dies, the only person it affects is me.

Again, I appriciate your concern and input, but my reason for posting
was to get feedback from folks who've used the freedns.afraid.org
service.

Take care,

Alex

Alex wrote:
> On Feb 28, 6:50 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Alex wrote:
>>> Hey Everyone,
>>> I've setup a domain on freedns.afraid.org for testing, and it appears
>>> to be very simple to use and work quite well. Does anyone have
>>> experience with it? I'm looking to host some of my domains (non-
>>> commercial) on my home cablemodem, and I'm thinking of using these
>>> guys to do my DNS.
>>> Just curious ---
>>> Alex
>> Alex,
>>
>> First of all, you need to ensure your ISP allows webhosting on home
>> modems. Many do not. They may block port 80 - or they may just cancel
>> your service for overuse.
>>
>> Another problem is downstream speed (from your ISP to you) is typically
>> much higher than upstream (you to the ISP) speed - often as much as 10:1
>> or more (most browsing is a few bytes upload followed by several K
>> download).
>>
>> Finally, what are you going to do when the power goes out, your cable
>> goes down, or you're 2 days into a 2-week vacation and your system hangs?
>>
>> You'll be better off getting a hosted site. Not only do they take care
>> of these problems for you, but the electric bill to run your server will
>> probably be more than the $5/mo. or so hosting costs.
>
>
> Hi Jerry,
>
> I appriciate the input, but being a network guy for more years then I
> can count, I understand the caveats of running a server at home. As I
> said in my original post, this is for non-commercial domains, none of
> which will be running a web server... I have a colocated site for my
> commercial domains and websites. If my home looses power or if the
> cablemodem dies, the only person it affects is me.
>
> Again, I appriciate your concern and input, but my reason for posting
> was to get feedback from folks who've used the freedns.afraid.org
> service.
>
> Take care,
>
> Alex
>

I use them as one of my backups. It seems to work fine, although I
can't say it's ever been accessed since it is a backup.

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JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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