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Originally posted here by h3r3tic
I have a question. i run apache on one of my home computers and do not have a domain. If I were to host a site for someone the address would be my ip/~username. Could this person if they already owned a domain just have it forwarded to their address on my server? I wanted to know because I could host a couple of peoples sites for free if they wanted me too.

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There are various ways to set-up up so that this would work. I currently have my address pointing to my service. You could use Virtual hosts or there are also scripts out there to look at the incoming domain name and redirect it to the appropriate directory. These are ways of having mulitple addresses point to different locations.

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ISP's generally include in thier user agreement a clause which prevents you from serving anything of any kind, such as web of FTP servers. Some scan regularly for them, but most don't. They just investigate when bandwidth becomes unusual and give you a warning. But generally, no, you can't host a webpage with residential intenet access.

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While most ISPs do from upon it and it is in the AUP normally that you won't run a webserver, it is still possible to host one. I've been running my own server now for a lil over 3 years on 3 different ISPs as I've moved around and non of them have said a word. My mail server they had issues with, however they don't allow me access to any SMTP servers other than their own. Usually if it's just a small thing, especially with the amount of traffic that the average broadband connection sees, they won't have any problem with it.

Thanks HTRegz, I tried to set up an smtp server once, actually several because I wanted one that I liked. Most worked except when I would try to email my account at my isp, it would give me some error about coming from a residential area. So I guess most ISP's have filters to not allow email from smtp servers on an unknown users machine. Also, some would not allow relaying, even though I was sending from the ip the smtp server was on, wouldn't that not be relaying. Oh well, that was just a past experiment that I tried because I wanted to have my own email account hosted by me. I even tried a few pop3 servers, but I'm pretty sure most wouldn't work, although I don't know why. Maybe I should find a tut on hosting your own mail server. I'm pretty sure I'm ok though as far as running a web server from my home machine. If someone would like to test me on this I would be glad to host their site for free.

I want too!!!!!! But no option for people outside US and Canada???? :'(

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Originally posted here by Tinks
I want too!!!!!! But no option for people outside US and Canada???? :'(

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Same here, although I already have a reseller account in the UK and I probably wouldn't use the 1&1 package really.

well i emailed them about the whole only US & Canada thing and this was their response

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Thank you for your email.

I do apologize for taking so long to get back to you.

Unfortunately, this offer is for residents of the continental United States and
Canada only. Thank you for your interest.
There are no known plans of extending this promotion to any other part
of the world at this time.

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no fair >_<;

v_Ln

how about if a person inside the USA signs up for you??

could do but you gotta give them a home telephone number and they call yoiu with an activation code - so is a bit much to ask someone :)

v_Ln