I have a DSL account with Ameritech (SBC) and I had been using it for
about 1 year before I obtained my own Domain Name. I purchased my
Domain Name through
http://www.domainalchemy.com/new_files/index.htm
for $15/year. They allow me to configure where I would like my email to
be forwarded to and an address (URL) for my Web Page.
I purchased a "3 Com Home Ethernet" Router for $50 from Tiger Direct.
I have 2 computers and I use 1 computer as my Server and my 2nd computer
for doing interactive work and play stuff. The Router is great because
I don't lose my IP address now when I have to reboot either computer!
My next problem was the fact that my DSL connection holds an IP address
for several days/weeks at a time but I do not have a static IP address
and I wanted to automate everything so that my computer recognizes when
my IP address changes and updates a pointer (Re-Director) for it. For
this problem, I found a free Dynamic IP Posting program called Keep Me
Posted that actually works specifically with several DSL Routers.
http://www.elegantlogic.com/KeepMePosted/Default.htm
Because it took some time for everything to filter through when my IP
address changed (when I updated it at www.domainalchemy.com), I found a
free Web Page service that supported FTP and the Dynamic IP Posting
program and I post a "Re-directing" html page there when my IP address
changes. Here is the sample template that I use to force an immediate
"Redirect" to my Dynamic IP address.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Author" content="Your Name here ">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Home Page for Your Name Here">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="blah blah blah">
<title>Home Page for John Henry Miller</title>
</head>
<body>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=http://%ipaddress_r%">
</html>
I am using Windows 98SE so the next thing I needed was a free Web
Serverer and a free FTP Server,
For a Web Server I found,
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html
For a FTP Server I found "GuildFTP" at,
http://www.nitrolic.com/
I am still searching for a good free "Mail Server" and eventually a
"Video" and "Audio" Server but everything seems to be working great with
what I have now.
Good Luck.
John
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