jtara
msg:3286521 | 5:55 pm on Mar 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Does Verizon's terms of service permit web servers? Is this a "business" service, or a "home/personal" service? Hint: if you are paying < $100/mo, it is probably not business service, and running a webserver is probably prohibited by the TOS. If this is the case, they've probably blocked port 80 in their routers. There's nothing you can do to unblock it.
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JAB Creations
msg:3286601 | 6:56 pm on Mar 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I spent a few hours this morning to figure that out the hard way. Comcast did not block port 80 so I'm upset. Luckily the business account only costs an extra $10 which I'm not wild about paying. I can access my own IP as a web server but no one else can no matter how insecure the router is which again is the ISP's doing. They will be coming out to upgrade the account tomorrow and I'll post how it goes. - John
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jtara
msg:3286613 | 7:08 pm on Mar 19, 2007 (gmt 0) |
$10 is a cheap upgrade for business service. Cox charges a bit more than double their consumer rate. I'm surprised that Comcast did not block port 80. It almost certainly is against their TOS. Turn on the firewalling that you turned off. Your Windows box is not long for this world with the firewalling turned off.
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JAB Creations
msg:3309507 | 3:56 pm on Apr 12, 2007 (gmt 0) |
System: The following message was spliced on to this thread from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/webmaster_hardware/3309505.htm [webmasterworld.com] by engine - 5:10 pm on April 12, 2007 (utc +1)
I canceled Verizon Fios. The sales people kept saying port 80/Apache was not blocked on whatever would cost me more money. I had five Verizon workers here and all that was missing under the hot Florida sun was a keg and a couple bands. Anyway I was told at the point of having a business account activated and working that I needed to have a static IP address which would only cost me $100 a month! The whole reason I got Fios in the first place was because it was $5 cheaper then Comcast! Plus if I was running a dot.com out of my home why would I stick with a dynamic IP address?! I was fed up with everything and gave them the boot (but not two because that would give them a pair! ;)). Still waiting for my refund to appear in the bank. I imagine that Comcast is not blocking Apache to appeal to our crowd but also because I'm getting this overall message that DSL is going to completely leave cable in the dust. I'm not really sure except for one thing: if Apache doesn't reach my business partner in a different state for private testing purposes then I'm not going to use their service! Some other notes of interest: I never saw anything better then 8 megabit on their 20 megabit connection, not even at the speed-test websites. The upload speed of five megabits was great except that it was exclusively limited to just my FTP connection. AIM, Yahoo, file uploads via the browser, all barely hitting 10-20 kilobytes a second tops. The thing is that I'm almost exclusively testing locally so all the speed in the world does not matter to me. All I can do is just stick with Comcast, hope they increase their speeds eventually, and don't block port 80 for any reason. Hopefully this will save other people TONS of time and aggravation at the expense of about 30 hours of my life. - John
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