[iamnafets]

I realize this is an old post, but just wanted to share my story. I used to be with Roadrunner. After about 2 weeks of running my first webserver, I noticed that it wasn't working, but only to outside people, not from within my lan. I eventually diagnosed the problem to be that somehow port 80 wasn't getting through and checked all my settings. It wasn't on my end. So I changed the port to something obscure like 8923 or something. That worked fine for a while, but then went dead too. As I later learned, RoadRunner was running port scans on my computer weekly, then bumped it up to nightly, and eventually to where it was somewhere around every 12 minutes! So, being stubborn, I changed my ISP to earthlink. Same cable company, even though Time Warner owns roadrunner last time I checked, two dollars cheaper, and they blatantly say they allow servers. I asked 3 tech support people the same question just to make sure. (And also if they block ports, which they only blocked NetBIOS). So now I run a fine and dandy server, and haven't run into problems yet. So if you are running a somewhat important server from home, plan on a backup solution. There are many dirt cheap hosts out there that offer really good services. But you gotta love a home server with unlimited bandwidth, network shares to upload files in seconds, unlimited space (if you were to buy a new hdd or whatever) etc etc...