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<blockquote data-quote="lnxmatt" data-source="post: 15695">Free web account + redirectI used to have a Charter cable modem a few years ago and I hosted a site on my own Linux server and setup apache with a different port like 5896 or whatever you feel like. I then signed up for a free geocities account and created an index.html page which had the following contents:&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;script language=&quot;javascript&quot;&gt;document.location=&quot;http://myserver.ipaddress:5896&quot;;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;So whenever somebody went to my geocities account it would forward them to my webserver. So I could manage everything on my server myself and run any services I wanted but still have people be able to get to my sight without having to remember a port. The solution would even work better if you had a site with a registered domain name and put the forward in it. Just something I did to get around the port blocking.Matt</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lnxmatt, post: 15695"] [b]Free web account + redirect[/b] I used to have a Charter cable modem a few years ago and I hosted a site on my own Linux server and setup apache with a different port like 5896 or whatever you feel like. I then signed up for a free geocities account and created an index.html page which had the following contents: <html> <head> <script language="javascript"> document.location="http://myserver.ipaddress:5896"; </script> </head> <body></body> </html> So whenever somebody went to my geocities account it would forward them to my webserver. So I could manage everything on my server myself and run any services I wanted but still have people be able to get to my sight without having to remember a port. The solution would even work better if you had a site with a registered domain name and put the forward in it. Just something I did to get around the port blocking. Matt [/QUOTE]

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