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Hosting a website from a college that's also the ISP?

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August 24, 2013 1:54:44 PM

Hey all,

I'm trying to get my (small-scale AND legal) website up on my university's internet, but I'm having some issues that I realize may be impossible to remedy if they are in fact blocking website hosting:

- They use their own DNS servers and default everyone to them
- Whether on WiFi or Ethernet, every device gets its own internet-level IP (like from an ISP) that is ping-able from outside the school's internet.
- From outside the university network, I can remote into my dd-wrt router via my host name or IP address with its special port.
- The Network Utility on my Mac shows that at my hostname/IP address, ports 80 and 443 are in fact open.
- When I set the remote access port for my router to 80, I cannot reach it from outside the university network, but I *can* reach it from inside the network.
- To be clear "inside the network" means on the university's WiFi, not on the router's LAN, but all works inside the LAN as well.

I feel like since I can reach my router at a nonstandard port, but not at 80, the university is blocking web hosting.

So much as I spoofed all my router's and computer's MAC Addresses to my phone so that I wouldn't get the "install network policy key" prompt, and so that I could actually get online, I'm hoping there's some workaround I can pull for getting my site up and running, hopefully without an external proxy, the internet here is great for hosting (20+ mbps up).


Thank you so much, I really hope we can find a solution!

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August 24, 2013 3:29:30 PM

Since you're obviously not the first at your school, what does your IT dept say?
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August 24, 2013 3:34:11 PM

I'm sure, though the ToS does not mention website hosting (seriously, who in college would host a website, maybe one guy), I would imagine they wouldn't exactly be all for it.
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August 24, 2013 3:38:53 PM

jimmyco2008 said:
I'm sure, though the ToS does not mention website hosting (seriously, who in college would host a website, maybe one guy), I would imagine they wouldn't exactly be all for it.


Who? Everyone who thinks he is the next Gates or Zuckerberg.
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August 24, 2013 7:12:43 PM

Not necessarily, asshole. Go away.
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August 24, 2013 7:20:12 PM

jimmyco2008 said:
Not necessarily, asshole. Go away.


I wasn't necessarily speaking of you, dude. Cool your jets.
You asked "seriously, who in college would host a website, maybe one guy"
I answered.

Now that we have that out of the way....talk to your campus IT guys. Either it will be allowed and they will tell you how, or it won't be allowed. In which case, go get a server from somewhere. Many places, including Microsoft, will give college students web hosting for free or very little charge.

Unchip that shoulder...
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