A lot of people do run webservers anyways even when their ISPs say not to. It's just because your ISP does not have the bandwidth for you that they tell you that they give you. If you took everyone's max allowed bandwidth and added it up it would be way more than what the ISP's total allowed bandwidth is. They just can't have everyone with their service runing web-servers. That's the main reason they say no.
Now, is it okay? No. Could you do it anyway? Probably so.
However, you need some good firewall protection and security because running a webserver will put your whole home network at risk for hacking. People could try to use it to distrubute illegal music and videos or use it in a denial of service attack.
It's really worth it to just pay around 50 bucks a year (or possibly less or more) for some hosting that's got what you want.
If you do run your own, be careful.
Here's a good link about home webservers http://www.dslwebserver.com
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Last edited by sanddrag : 11-06-2003 at 20:07.
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