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northstar747

northstar747

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This is kinda embarrassing because although i ve been on the web for 20 years I never really learned the ropes of this.

I cant power level about the situation but basically there is a domain thats open.

I might want to use it as a website but what I m looking to do is just through up a "undercontruction" page.

and just have a email address like "North@supersexlama.com"

Whats a good quick and dirty way to do this?
 
I mean you can ask null for an email if you want
 
I was thinking once I've got enough money from a few projects I'm working on to setup an hMail server on raspberry Pi running ubuntu because it's cheap and effective
 
Ive got an old laptop i tried throwing HMail on but i was worried about opening ports 25 on my home router as thats the only place i have to host a site atm but i might just get a VPS instead & do it from there so im not fucking around hosting shit in my own home.
 
northstar747 said:
This is kinda embarrassing because although i ve been on the web for 20 years I never really learned the ropes of this.

I cant power level about the situation but basically there is a domain thats open.

I might want to use it as a website but what I m looking to do is just through up a "undercontruction" page.

and just have a email address like "North@supersexlama.com"

Whats a good quick and dirty way to do this?
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I was hosting my own website with these kinds of requirements a while ago. If your not comftable with Linux & have a spare Windows box lying about you can just setup IIS on it & open ports 80 & 443 & your router & forward them to the box. Then just clear the default site structure & throw up a generic html this site is under construction message. Something like:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title> Under construction </title>
</head>
<body>

<h1> Under Construction </h1>

</body>
</html>
 
Tims said:
open ports 80 & 443 & your router & forward them to the box.
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I tried this a little while ago and within hours I was getting dozens of requests per minute from russian and chinese bots.
 
Running your own mail server is too much of a hassle, unless you're a sysadmin interested in training yourself through battle. For anyone else, just outsource it.

Also, if you're just a plain old residential customer your ISP may frown heavily on it if you open common ports like HTTP or SMTP. Tread carefully if you do.
 
ditto said:
I tried this a little while ago and within hours I was getting dozens of requests per minute from russian and chinese bots.
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Thats why i stopped running it to be honest i was getting bombarded constantly with crap from a bunch of chinky bots.
Kosher Dill said:
Running your own mail server is too much of a hassle, unless you're a sysadmin interested in training yourself through battle. For anyone else, just outsource it.

Also, if you're just a plain old residential customer your ISP may frown heavily on it if you open common ports like HTTP or SMTP. Tread carefully if you do.
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I agree it's a real pain if you dont know what your doing. I have a router level VPN running with a permanent assigned IP address, so i can route traffic through it away from the prying eyes of my isp, so not much to worry about ISP side but if you dont i also wouldn't recommend it but it is cheap for what he was trying to do.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Running your own mail server is too much of a hassle, unless you're a sysadmin interested in training yourself through battle. For anyone else, just outsource it.

Also, if you're just a plain old residential customer your ISP may frown heavily on it if you open common ports like HTTP or SMTP. Tread carefully if you do.
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Or if you're someone who values privacy and has the tools to implement your own security. If your web server gets hacked then it's no big deal, unless you're also storing sensitive data on it. You can run a dedicated mail server with a simple old PC or an rPi
 
pilnowacz said:
Luke Smith has nice, straightforward tutorial for setting up your own server if you're looking to learn about this stuff:
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I always find it hilarious watching Luke's videos because I can never tell if he actually ever does any productive work, or just spends his whole time configuring his distributions lol. Also obligatory Mental Outlaw deepfake post.
 
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