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<p><font size="2" face="arial,sans-serif">you can also use a dynamic
DNS to create a public web address that points to your home
server<br>
It depends on how often your local IP changes - if you are using
Comcast/Xfinity, I can tell your<br>
that your IP will rarely change -- I've used dyndns.com for
years for that effect.<br>
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Just be careful how you define your local router/firewall to
keep your<span style="color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px;
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server separate from the rest of your local machines.</span></span></font></p>
<p><font size="5" face="arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:
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!important; float: none;"><span>Also, you mixed your business
discussion with your tech questions - there are local
business startup groups just about the business part -
depending on your goals you might check out VVW -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://valleyventurementors.org/">https://valleyventurementors.org/</a><br>
<br>
If you decide to share your tech ideas, you might also
consider sharing your code base using GitHub -- there are a
number of businesses that grew out of a shared Github code
base, as the idea grew</span></span></font><font size="2"
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face="arial,sans-serif">Good Luck - Rich</font></span></span></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/20/2021 10:40 AM, Mark D. Hamill
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<div dir="ltr">If this is strictly for use by friends and family
and you expect low usage there may be a low cost alternative and
host it yourself but make it publicly available. It's amazing
what you can do with a static IP, a Raspberry Pi and a network
firewall. This video talks about putting a website on the dark
web hosted in your house but it would apply as well if you don't
want it to be on the dark web. Food for thought:
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AM Peter S via Hidden-discuss <<a
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<p>Hello Hidden Techers,</p>
<p>I want to apologize up front for what is a serious
'newbie' question.. but I was hoping to draw from your
collective wisdom, if possible.<br>
</p>
<p>I've built a small website that essentially aggregates
all of my home utility data (from the various utility
websites) into one dashboard. It's been a personal
project of mine for the past few years, written in Django,
that I've essentially developed/hosted on my home Linux
server. Its written to be scalable, so that it works for
any US State/City, assuming the web crawlers were written
for the utility web sites. I see this as a hobby venture
(that could grow to be more).</p>
<p>I'd like to go live with it, and make it available to
some of my friends/family, if they were interested in
using it.</p>
<p>While I've been buttoning up things from a security
perspective, I've also been researching the associated
costs of actually running a website. <br>
</p>
<p>Specifically:</p>
<ol>
<li>Purchasing/Sustaining a domain name via Namecheap</li>
<li>Web hosting (maybe multiple nodes... one for main
Django app, one for Redis Queue workers, one for Splash
Javascript rendering support) via Digital Ocean, Heroku,
or AWS.<br>
</li>
<li>Email Hosting..<br>
</li>
<li>(Possibly) SSL Certificate purchase</li>
<li>More?</li>
</ol>
<p>I haven't yet decided on which hosting services etc to
use (multiple topics for other conversations). My
assumption is that in the short (and most likely long
term) this won't turn a profit, and would just be a small
money hole.<br>
</p>
<p>I thought it might make sense to at least capture these
costs under some sort of 'small business' umbrella. My
naive hope is that maybe it would have positive tax
implications.<br>
</p>
<p>I've never started a business of any kind before. <br>
</p>
<p>So.. what do I need to do? I need to get an EIN from the
IRS. I've heard an LLC may be more than I need. What
would be your suggested approach? <br>
</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your time and wisdom (and patience
for my newbie question),</p>
<p>~Peter</p>
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