How do I start hosting my applications In-House.?
Posted March 10th, 2010
Hello Folks,
Could you please let me know the pro’s and con’s associated with Hosting In-house. We run a SOHO and desire to host our mail applications in-house. We look forward to securing Internet Service via Satellite to run it.
What may we need and what’s is it to be aware of?
Make sure what you are doing is not against the rules of your ISP. You may need a different type of account to host a website at home.
Make sure your ISP permits traffic on at least port 25. Point your DNS MX record at your external IP (which may change – ask your ISP if they offer service that includes a static IP, which’ll prolly cost extra)
Use port forwarding on your router to forward port 25 from your router to your mail server. If you’re going to be checking mail from clients outside your house, look into what ports need to be open for the clients. (I believe POP uses 110. Not sure what IMAP uses.)
Make sure you’re running a SMTP/mail server and perhaps a POP/IMAP server.
…just some things to look into.