For those wanting to host their own web services such as hosting a web site, FTP service and other similar services from home have many options to accomplish this. One of the very common and popular way of doing this is by using a service to map your dynamic IP address with a domain name. The only problem in this scenario is that your host name/domain-name mapping must be updated with your dynamic IP address as soon as it changes. This way, you may expect minimal disruption of services that you wish to offer from your home based computer.
No-IP DUC is one of such services that offers a free DNS update client which will update your IP address to a host name under no-ip.com, example – yourname.no-ip.com. You can also choose from other 20 such domain names under which you can create a sub-domain that will point to your dynamic IP address. This basic service comes free of cost for personal use and users with higher traffic and requiring more features should consider No-IP Enhanced or No-IP Plus Managed DNS.
The enhanced services cost under $10USD per annum/per account which is a great price considering the features that come along with enhanced/managed DNS services. You can create up-to 20 sub-domains, more parent domains to choose from, multiple MX records, multiple accounts per user and ad free port 80 redirects. This is ideal for users who want to run commercial services using this solution.
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