Case Study - Individual Service Hosting

Background: A home broadband user has a personal web page hosted on his ISP's provided web space. Because of his interest as an amateur musician, he wishes to make recordings of his music available to interested friends and family. He has decided to use the Serv-U FTP server for this purpose.

Problem: He has no interest in hosting his own web site and would like to keep it on his ISP's provided web space. But the space isn't large enough to host all his music files, which is why he needs Serv-U. The cost for additional hosting is too expensive. He has a domain name for his website, but his broadband connection provides a dynamic IP address.

Solution: DNS4Me bridges the gap for this user in multiple ways. DNS4Me provides an online URL redirect service for him that ensures Web visitors to his domain name are redirected to his ISP hosted web site. But he is also able to use his domain name for his FTP server. Serv-U works seamlessly with the DNS4Me service to ensure that FTP clients and browsers are always able to access his music files hosted on his home computer. He can even add FTP links to these files from within his web page.

Benefits: The cost of DNS4Me is cheaper than several months of additional hosting space while giving him the flexibility to host his own files. He's able to link his domain name to his web site, which simplifies things for his visitors. In addition, should he decide to take over hosting of his own web site at some point in the future, he already has everything he needs to do it since DNS4Me includes a built-in web server.