Hi Everyone,
I need your help because I'm a little confused. My friend has Comcast internet at her house. I installed FreeBSD on an old Dell R710 server and it has a backup of her web site. I set up the DNS so its something like backup.website.com while the public www version of the web site is hosted at a regular data center. When Comcast is down at her house (or when its working), she wants to open a browser and go to backup.website.com and have the backup copy of her web site work normally.
While I can install FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, and MySQL without much trouble, this has me a bit stuck. I know FreeBSD has some powerful networking tools and its own nameserver too right?
Her setup is as follows:
- Comcast modem > ASUS Wifi router > ethernet cable > Dell R710 running FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC
I CAN access backup.website.com from my house SOMETIMES, but it takes a long time to come up and sometimes I have to refresh the browser a bunch of times. I feel like Comcast really doesn't want you hosting web sites from your house. While having the backup web site accessible publicly would be nice, its NOT a necessity.
When I'm at her house I CANNOT get backup.website.com in a browser, so that is where I'm confused. What should I check next? Maybe there's a simple solution and I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be? LOL
Thanks in advance!
I need your help because I'm a little confused. My friend has Comcast internet at her house. I installed FreeBSD on an old Dell R710 server and it has a backup of her web site. I set up the DNS so its something like backup.website.com while the public www version of the web site is hosted at a regular data center. When Comcast is down at her house (or when its working), she wants to open a browser and go to backup.website.com and have the backup copy of her web site work normally.
While I can install FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, and MySQL without much trouble, this has me a bit stuck. I know FreeBSD has some powerful networking tools and its own nameserver too right?
Her setup is as follows:
- Comcast modem > ASUS Wifi router > ethernet cable > Dell R710 running FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC
I CAN access backup.website.com from my house SOMETIMES, but it takes a long time to come up and sometimes I have to refresh the browser a bunch of times. I feel like Comcast really doesn't want you hosting web sites from your house. While having the backup web site accessible publicly would be nice, its NOT a necessity.
When I'm at her house I CANNOT get backup.website.com in a browser, so that is where I'm confused. What should I check next? Maybe there's a simple solution and I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be? LOL
Thanks in advance!