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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Anyone run a web/email server from home?
If so, what is your solution for internet service? We run a very small server at home, for our email and just a few web pages (mostly for family members). We are moving and the new utility specifically says no servers of any kind in their TOS. We may be able to get a small business account, but the info is hard to come by, and I am going a little crazy with all the numbers.
I guess I'm just curious as to what other people do in this situation. I'd rather not do any sort of remote hosting, but we may have to resort to it 
Re: Anyone run a web/email server from home?
Hm... I don't know too much about web servers, but I think that--unless you're sharing gigs of stuff--hosting stuff from your computer won't cause any red flags to come up. While on the internet, you naturally send information back and forth. Who is to say you're not uploading something to a website? Keep the size to a minimum and you should be able to get away with it.
Good luck!
That's what I'm thinking too. It was in the TOS at our dorms in college too, but I still did it anyway (along with many others).
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We have a web/mail server we run at home.
We have comcast business package and it's not really that much more than we were paying before(dh had found a company that would allow us to do it on standard rates but ther was a lot of bs that went on so we canceled them).
We not only host our website but some for family members as well so we had to get the business package or really risk being caught.
Kristi and Kerry June 21,2008
We used to run a small server in the US, but it was mostly for personal web development projects. Though DH did use it to access our home mp3 collection from work, since our company IT policy disallows any mp3s to be stored on company machines/networks. (My officemates and I have now skirted this policy by putting our collective music on an external flash drive that's permanently plugged into the machine with the speakers!) Anyhow, I never even thought about checking the TOS! But that was so long ago that it might not have been in there anyway.
Out of curiosity, why not remote hosting? I've been remote hosting my website for years, and it's actually very convenient since there's no downtime when we move. (This is a big deal for me, since international moves are slow, and that's usually the time when the most people want to know what's going on with us.) I admit that it can be a small pain to remote login to the server to edit a file that only needs a small tweak, but that doesn't happen too often. Usually I can test everything locally and then just push it to the servers. Oh, and the biggest advantage is that it means we have a second backup of our favorite photos at an off-site location, in case there's ever a major fire in our building.
Well, I have a couple reasons for not wanting to do remote hosting, but I'm not sure they are good ones
One is that I'm a control freak. Nothing we have on the server is particularly sensitive, but I like that my email is only on a computer at home and not sitting around on some other person's computer, accessible to them in some way or another. The other is that I just don't want another bill to worry about! Remote hosting wouldn't save us much, if any, money per month, and it would add another expense to keep track of.
In the case of moving, it definitely would be nice to have the content hosted, but I'm only anticipating the server move taking a few hours for us! Providing the utility doesn't screw up...