Is my website working? (1 Viewer)

[Charles J P]

I am hosting my own website, but since I moved and switched ISPs, I'm not sure if its been working. I originally posted in the testing area, but one person replied and couldnt get to my site. Now I have made some mods to my XP firewall settings, and I'm wondering if you can get there now. I can see it, because I'm not leaving the ISPs network when I request the page. I used to use a "proxy" like www.safeweb.com but they are gone and have sold their domain. Does any one know of a similar site?

 

[Stephen Orr]

I'm in the process of getting a teaching job, and just bought a domain name and web space (600MB!) for $99 with NoMonthlyFees. The $99 was a special twice a year deal to current customers, otherwise it's a $200 set up fee. I've been using them in various endeavors over the past three years and have been completely satisfied with them. After initial set up, they only charge $70 a year for maintenance, including the domain name upkeep. You might want to consider using them.

 

[Charles J P]

Yeah, the plus with the way I was doing it was, it cost me $9 a year to register my domain with godaddy.com and then free domian management and redirection at mydomain.com and then free web server space, since it was my own server. They have HTTP ports blocked, but I could get around it with Quest, but using a non-standard port. That doesnt seem to work with Cox.

 

[Pat]

Charles,
When I click on the link in your sig, I get "opening page http://68.96.138.185/hometheater/index.htm" then I get the normal "Cannot find server or DNS Error" message

 

[Darren Lewis]

Same here. Must be your firewall that's blocking access. What webserver software are you using ISS or Apache?

 

[Charles J P]

I'm actually using Omni HTTPd Professional. It worked the whole time I had Quest service. Cox is blocking my ports.

 

[Joel Mack]

Charles,

I'm not positive, but I think running a web server from your machine on the Cox network is a violation of TOS, which is why they're probably blocking you.

They don't let people run game or FTP servers, either, AFAIK.

 

[Charles J P]

Yeah, thats what the rep told me. They're not blocking me specifically, they are just blocking all ports on their firewalls.

 

[JeffTodd]

Something to check.....if they are blocking ports, maybe they are just blocking port 80. I was using Time Warner and they blocked 80. I simply changed my server to port 81 and anywhere I posted a URL just stated the port in the address (ie. www.testsite.com:81) It will get you around the port hassle. If that one is blocked then just pick another port.

 

[Charles J P]

Thats what I was doing with qwest, but I cant get it to work with COX. I figure I'll just use my personal webspace allotment from them unless I run into any bandwith problems.

 

[Charles J P]

Oops, made some more changes, would someone please check now. I also found a website called www.goproxy.com that I think serves my purpose for testing. I think I have it working.

 

[KenC]

I just tried and got to your pages with no problem.

 

[Charles J P]

Yesssss fixed.... thanks guys.

 

[Charles J P]

OK, I still cannot get this to work. I dont know whether my connection is going down that much. I though I had it working becuase I could access the website from home with goproxy and Ken could access it. Now, I cannot access it from work through a direct connection or through goproxy. Anyone else want to give it a shot?

 

[Pat]

Charles,
I just clicked on the link in you sig and it worked fine.

 

[Charles J P]

OK, I have a feeling that I cant get to it because of firewalls at work that are blocking access since it just redirects to my servers IP and port that the webserver are running on.