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Title: Hosting from home - newbie question
Post by: Pete on February 03, 2009, 21:17:59 PM
If I put up a webserver can I stop people from being able to see the sites IP?
Title: Re:Hosting from home - newbie question
Post by: Mark on February 03, 2009, 21:44:57 PM
If you dont want anyone to be able to browse the site then yes.
Title: Re:Hosting from home - newbie question
Post by: Cypher on February 07, 2009, 23:10:22 PM
Understand what a DNS lookup is and how your browser finds "tekforum.co.uk" and youll understand why the answer is no.
Title: Re:Hosting from home - newbie question
Post by: Mark on February 08, 2009, 03:07:48 AM
you could use a reverse proxy, or something like an aep netilla (Which we resell:) )


Title: Re:Hosting from home - newbie question
Post by: Serious on February 08, 2009, 09:38:22 AM
A software firewall should be able to hide the site simply by not responding to packets from unknown sources. It wont entirely block any possibility of them finding it but should be good enough to stop them locating by poking it randomly.
Title: Re:Hosting from home - newbie question
Post by: Pete on February 08, 2009, 11:51:03 AM
Quote from: Markyou could use a reverse proxy, or something like an aep netilla (Which we resell:) )



Cheers, Ill have a google.