newbie needs ISP for dedicated,embedded web server

[fizbim]

Here is my situation. I would like to connect my small, dedicated web server to the internet. This web server consists of an Atmel micro with 128K of flash and 32K of ram. It's purpose is to provide small (1-2K at most) HTML coded "dynamic" web pages upon request. It would be connected to the ISP through a 14.4K dial-up connection. I do not have an IP address or domain name (yet). Although, I would like to register one and have a fixed IP address and domain name for my small server. It's use is mainly for experimental purposes and not for high volume traffic.

Does anyone know of a company who could provide an ISP for this type of application. Cost is a concern of course.

I really do not want to continously upload new web pages to someone elses server either.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Fiz

[AlienCode]

Hey FizBim,

Hosting on a 14.4k modem? Your mad:) But as you say if it is not criticle to be online all the time and will not get a lot of traffic then its starting place for you.

I don't know of any ISPS that provide dialup users with a fixed IP address but I know you can use a service such as dyndns.org. You run a small app on your PC. Everytime you get a new IP address it sends your IP address to their DNS Servers. This means that you don't need a fixed IP address.

You may want to tell us where you are from as this is cruicial information if you want people to recommend ISPS to you. In my opinion though you really should get the site hosted somewhere or at the very least get a DSL line.

[Phoenix]

Stranger things than hosting on a 14.4k modem have been known to happen. A very geeky colleague of mine set up a Commodore 128 as a web server, just because he could. Slower than molasses in January, but it would serve up web pages.

I could recommend a local ISP that gives dial-up customers a static IP address, but it wouldn't help you as they are not in your part of the country.

Your best bet would be going to www.thelist.com and searching by your area code for ISP's.

Although the consumer-focused ISP's don't provide static IP addresses with their dial-up, or even DSL, accounts, there are sure to be some old school geek-run ISP's around that will give you a static IP just because they think it's cool that you are going to run a web server off a 14.4 connection.