On Sunday 06 December 2015 14:38:27 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 04:57:08 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Its not that hard to setup your own server right at home if you have > > a machine running 24/7 which 4 of the 5 on my local net do. > > I have a server, running apache. There is no way on earth I would > expose it to the Internet, I know just enough about IT security to > know that I don't know anything like enough about IT security to run a > public-facing web server safely. > Obviously you don't trust your router. Mine has been reflashed with DD-WRT. Nothing comes in that I don't let in.
> > Just > > don't put it on port 80 because the ISP's block that for incoming in > > order to force you to put it on their machines. > > I don't have a problem with that, my ISP doesn't block anything, I run > a mail server. And thats a headache I don't think I want to contemplate. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
