John,

Thank you for a detailed and helpful message.

First, as I mentioned in another message, I don't plan to host this site for a long time, just for testing and learning experience. I actually am using DiscountAsp for hosting my web site.

And since I am learning, I was wonering if I could ask you to clarify a couple of thing for me, please.

>You'll need a fixed IP address. Then you need to set your >registrant's DNS name server/s to point your domain to the IP >address.

Where in my IIS would I enter the fixed IP address assigned to me by ISP?

>At which point you will become a target for hackers. Make sure you >have all the server security patches and get a hardware firewall >with NAT going before you hook up your server. Block all incoming >ports except those you actually need.

1. What is hardware firewall? Would a router be considered a good firewall?

2. What is NAT?

3. How do you block incoming ports? And how do I know which ports are needed?

Thank you.