<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Rick Hornsby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span class="vibe-email">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</span></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>OT: I've been very, very happy with DH. I've been with them for a little over 7 years. Their support is very responsive, and will provide an appropriately technical response to a technical question. I occasionally use my shell account when I'm on the road (hotel wifi, coffee shop, etc) for an SSH tunnel. While you're technically not supposed to do that, they've never complained. I use my shell account to do things like keep track of my home WAN DHCP address by writing a small file, and while that's also technically probably not something they want me doing (they're a web hosting provider, not a shell script provider) they've never mentioned it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The only thing I really can't do that I wish I could is some management of my mailman lists through the shell. There have been times when I want to use the python/shell commands to fetch the membership list, add/remove people, etc. All in all, that's a pretty minor inconvenience.</div>
<div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">For your own use, and as long as you're not going nuts, or doing anything abusive, they'll leave you alone. I've done the same thing since having my DH account. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">As for keeping track of your home WAN IP, you could simply run a script that does a wget once an hour to a host on that server hosted on DH. It's a URL only you know, so you grep the access log for who requested the page RicksHomeIPgetter.htm and voila, it's your home IP that's doing the fetch. No fancy script required.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">Another thing you could do is configure your router to update one of the many (and many FREE) DDNS services. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">Sorry - we're way OT by now, but it happens sometimes with this group...</div>
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