Yes is it frowned upon by my provider, but I only use it for from time to time for development and there is very little traffic and the server is shutdown most of the day, so they don't bother me. If it's host a lot of traffic then the higher fees would come into play for certain. The advantage is that you may host a website that you control completely.

>Hi Grady,
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>>Pardon me for butting in, but this may help. I use dns2go and have the server in my basement for $19.95 a year. http://www.deerfield.com
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>For $19.95 a year??? With what kind of connection? You mean you have a cable or DSL connection and you're running dns2go to keep a fixed IP address, right? So really it's $40 or $50 a month + Dns2go... <s>
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>I would be very careful about running a server over a Cable or DSL connection because that's specifcally prohibited in most service contracts from the provider. If they find out about hosting in many case (not all of them) they'll pull the plug on you without warning and have the right to sue you. You might want to check your service agreement.
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>If you have occasional access you probably have nothing to worry about, but if you're running a continuous access application (even something as innocuous like a WebLog which generates search engine traffic) it might very quickly raise suspicions.
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>Also most DSL/Cable links are severely limited in uplink speed (typically in the 256kb range)... That's probably enough for a hobby site but for anything professional that's painfully slow.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>>My economics are based on reality, not on a fantasy world where everything should be free... <s>
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>>>I'm sure somebody could go out and expend that energy and donate money and time to do this, but this is not something I'm particularily interested in. Running an ISP business is not like software development where the only costs are your time - you have to put up money up front - a lot of it to pay for the services you offer and the hardware you put up, so it's not like volunteering your time to provide a tool to the community.
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>>>>What I am trying to say is:
>>>>There are many VFP desktop developers around which are, by default, potentialy VFP web developers. They need cheap, reliable and supported shared VFP webserver for easy and quick startup! This startup doesn't means website making money from 1st day, how could? Means few MB of space, means limited bandwith, means small traffic... No one commercial ISP can't offer this, because they are all in Your economics. I am suggesting to WWWC, AFP and FoxWeb makers to think about it, find some solution here: support the community, give developers chance to try VFP webtools online. After that, many of them will buy You licences and will go to the $49/month hostings or co-locate own server. And then will be enough VFP developers online and $49 will become acceptable 20$...
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>>>Software developers don't make ISPs. I couldn't possibly provide this service to my customers, running an ISP business is ton of work and requires significant startup costs and a knowledge set that I don't even pretend to have. You can't just run this stuff off a server out of your basement if you plan on hosting a large number of sites. You need a whole infrastructure in place to do this right and it's expensive. The only way ISPs can survive is by having lots of sites hosted and frankly the VFP market doesn't support that.