Herbert,

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:43:10 -0400, Herbert Graf wrote:

>...
> Careful here.
> 
> Many ISPs disallow the hosting of certain services over you connection,
> and have been known to disable accounts detected as hosting these sorts
> of services. A local ISP in my area specifically bans any web server
> hosting, and has been known to "scan" whole user subnets with port 80
> probes to find users running web servers.
> 
> It's similiar with other services.
> 
> On top of this, many ISPs block all ports, ingoing and going dealing
> with SMTP, meaning you can certainly host an SMTP server, but you'll
> never get any traffic.
> 
> Personally I think it's bollucks: I should be able to do whatever I want
> with my connection, but that's just my opinion. And there are often ways
> around it, I just run my servers on non standard ports.

Me too, that's why I am with an ISP that allows you to do anything you like with the line - they positively encourage you to run your own servers if that's what you 
want to do (they provide tech.support on how to do it).  They're a bit more expensive than the mass market, bargain-basement, call-centre-in-Bangalore ISPs, but 
worth every penny, IMHO.

They're in England, of course, but I'd have thought there were similar ones in the USA.   Aren't there?

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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