Dynamic DNS
Sometimes hosting a web site on your own private server at home may be a wise choice, particularly so on a low traffic server demanding no special hosting features.
Though not outstanding, present day broadband internet access offers a reasonable price vs. quality ratio, on the other hand entry level service usually doesn't provide a static IP address, instead they often change your IP address several times a week through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) therefore making it difficult to reach your web site.
Domain name entries pointing at your server would have to be changed manually each time an IP address change occurred. Hosting your own DNS server would only turn things worse, moving the problem one level up towards the root DNS servers which take longer to refresh.
Dynamic DNS solves this huge problem transparently enabling client software on your server to interact with server software on the DNS server sending your new IP address whenever it changes so that the DNS server can update your domain on the fly. Dynamic DNS companies provide the client software you must run at your server whereas some routers already support popular dynamic DNS protocols by default so that you only have to provide your dynamic DNS server address.
Though not outstanding, present day broadband internet access offers a reasonable price vs. quality ratio, on the other hand entry level service usually doesn't provide a static IP address, instead they often change your IP address several times a week through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) therefore making it difficult to reach your web site.
Domain name entries pointing at your server would have to be changed manually each time an IP address change occurred. Hosting your own DNS server would only turn things worse, moving the problem one level up towards the root DNS servers which take longer to refresh.
Dynamic DNS solves this huge problem transparently enabling client software on your server to interact with server software on the DNS server sending your new IP address whenever it changes so that the DNS server can update your domain on the fly. Dynamic DNS companies provide the client software you must run at your server whereas some routers already support popular dynamic DNS protocols by default so that you only have to provide your dynamic DNS server address.
