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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:57 pm    Post subject: ISP will not allow web hosting with IIS or Apache. Reply with quote
My ISP is Comcast. I talked to a technical support person about
hosting a website with IIS or Apache and they said it was not allowed
by comcast. Does anyone have any idea why this is? It seems pretty
stupid that they would not allow you to do this. It seems even
stupider that they would have control over it. Should an ISP be able
to tell you what you can and can't do like that? Does anyone else
have this problem?

I'd just like to see if they have a good reason for this, or if they
just like telling us that we aren't allowed.

Thanks
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:14 am    Post subject: Re: ISP will not allow web hosting with IIS or Apache. Reply with quote
In article <1189810626.982597.48050@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
zachlr1@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
My ISP is Comcast. I talked to a technical support person about
hosting a website with IIS or Apache and they said it was not allowed
by comcast.

That's right. The "Comcast High-Speed Internet Acceptable Use Policy"
for residential customers prohibits running servers in item"xiv" under
"Prohibited Uses and Activities":

http://www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp

Quote:
Does anyone have any idea why this is? It seems pretty
stupid that they would not allow you to do this. It seems even
stupider that they would have control over it. Should an ISP be able
to tell you what you can and can't do like that? Does anyone else
have this problem?

Comcast provides the service, so it gets to set the rules. If you
don't like the rules, you don't have to use the service.

Quote:
I'd just like to see if they have a good reason for this, or if they
just like telling us that we aren't allowed.

Comcast's residential service is designed to provide subscribers with
much greater download speed and capacity that upload speed and
capacity. For example, I get 7174 Kbps download speed and 362 Kbps
upload speed. If they let customers run servers, there would be a
much greater demand for upload capacity.

Quote:
Thanks

You're welcome. I think that Comcast's Business Class Internet
service allows customers to run servers. See:

http://www.comcast.com/corporate/shop/business/cw_high_speed_internet.html
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:34 pm    Post subject: Re: ISP will not allow web hosting with IIS or Apache. Reply with quote
zachlr1@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
My ISP is Comcast. I talked to a technical support person about
hosting a website with IIS or Apache and they said it was not allowed
by comcast. Does anyone have any idea why this is? It seems pretty
stupid that they would not allow you to do this. It seems even
stupider that they would have control over it. Should an ISP be able
to tell you what you can and can't do like that? Does anyone else
have this problem?

I'd just like to see if they have a good reason for this, or if they
just like telling us that we aren't allowed.

Thanks

Hi - are you the same person who asked how to host a website on your
workstation, in the DNS newsgroup? If so, to recap, your home computer is
not
the place to do this, whether your ISP will allow it or not. If you're going
to host your own website, it needs to be on a server in an isolated network
segment that can't touch the rest of your network/computers. You'll likely
need more than one public IP for that. As mentioned, an external hosting
account is cheap cheap cheap.
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V Green
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:58 pm    Post subject: Re: ISP will not allow web hosting with IIS or Apache. Reply with quote
Has nothing to do with WHAT app you're hosting under,
it has to do with that you're not allowed to do it at all
with "consumer" ISP accounts. Eats up too much bandwidth
for the $$ they're charging.

Pretty much everyone does this.

If you want to run your own server, you'll need a more
expensive "business class" package from Comcast.

<zachlr1@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1189810626.982597.48050@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
Quote:
My ISP is Comcast. I talked to a technical support person about
hosting a website with IIS or Apache and they said it was not allowed
by comcast. Does anyone have any idea why this is? It seems pretty
stupid that they would not allow you to do this. It seems even
stupider that they would have control over it. Should an ISP be able
to tell you what you can and can't do like that? Does anyone else
have this problem?

I'd just like to see if they have a good reason for this, or if they
just like telling us that we aren't allowed.

Thanks
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