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Not sure if this is the right place to post this, if not a Mod may move it.

I have just started to use my home PC as my site server (using no-ip ). In order to get it to work I needed to turn off the Windows XP firewall.

I know some of you have done this in the past so the question is

1. is thre a way in the windows firewall to free up port 80 so the site can be seen and still leave security on the rest of the system?

2. is there a better way to do this, maybe with a 3rd party firewall?

3. with the firewall turned off, just how much problem could that create?

I really like the convenience of doing this, and my PC is on 24/7 anyway. It is so much easier to do updates right at home without the need to upload everything.

any comments please