I was wondering why not host the application from my office itself? I have a static IP. What else do I need to make my local server accessible on the Internet? I know I need a domain name but I am new to hosting so I don’t know how to go about it. How will I link my static WAN IP to the domain. Right now when I type my WAN IP on the net , my ISP shows up a site blocked page. I don’t know what to do.
It is an ASP.net web app.
I was wondering why not host the application from my office itself? I have
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First, are your sure the IP address you have at your office is a static public ip address? You may have an internal IP. What I mean is that YOUR Computer may have an internal IP address so yo would need to configure your router to forward connections to port 80 to your specific IP address inside your LAN.
You can register your domain at any registrar of your choice (I am hesitant to mention one). You should have an option to link your domain name to your IP address somewhere at the registrar’s site. After you do this, you should be able to go http://yourdomainjustregistered.com and hit your IIS Server.
My understanding is that versions of IIS that are shipped with regular home computers have restrictions on how many connections can be made concurrently. You would need to get a Server version of Windows.
If your ISP shows a site blocked page when you type your ip address, it may be the case that they block port 80 to their customers so that they don’t run personal websites without paying them a fee. You need to find out what’s their policy regarding this, drop them if they do something like this and find another ISP. Alternatively, you can run your web server on a different port (8180, for example) and use all kinds of techniques to redirect users that hit http://yourdomain.com to this port on your box. You would need to adjust IIS to listen on this port too.