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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 01:25:59 +0000 (UTC), neverland@GOODEVEca.net (Pete)
>declaimed the following:
>
>>Exactly. It's behind a firewall, with the only port exposed being
>>a private one for the reminder service (so I can access it from
>>the coffee shop!). I tried opening port 80 for a while, but got
>>fed up with all the malevolent probes.
>>
> I suspect mine is getting bogged down by such too... But having lost
>the 10MB (per email address) static web space from Earthlink (I'm paying to
>keep the email addresses alive, but no longer have the web space for
>scratch files), I set up a dynamic DNS account and set up an nginx server
>on a Pi3B (now if I could figure out how to keep it from creating status
>files for the DDNS update calls, to reduce wear on the SD card; I can't
>justify running a TB hard drive just for log files).
>
I've made sure I have a static IP just because I thought I might want
to have a local web server, but it never actually has seemed worth it.
Maybe I'm fortunate in having a local friendly ISP, that gives me web
space for a very reasonable price. The static IP makes the above-mentioned
coffee-shop access simple, though.
Cheers,
-- Pete --
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