Hosting a website in my own computer

Since late July this year I have been working on this own project of hosting my own website in my own desktop computer.

Since Dhiraagu's internet connection uses dynamic IP addresses that change over time, I have to use a DDNS (Dynamic DNS) client installed on my computer. So using a free service from www.dynu.com which automatically updates the IP address using their client software I started work on my computer.

My Windows 11 Pro has Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Service) webserver and using Notepad I wrote a simple HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) index.html page which shows "Allah Akbar...Allah is great" in the browser.

I need a PTR (Pointer Record ) to be added for reverse DNS which means I need to have a static IP address binded to my Dhiraagu provided router...So I applied in Dhiraagu App in my phone for a static IP Add On which costs 81 MVR per month.

The static IP address was applied to my router in a few moments but for my own safety I have censored the IP address in the below screenshots.

I have to enable port forwarding in my Dhiraagu provided Huawei router and Windows Defender Firewall...I opened the ports 80 and 443 for normal and secure connections respectively.

Using a free tool called Win ACME and running that tool as administrator in Windows I installed a free SSL/TLS certificate to enable https connections. The certificate is from Let's Encrypt.

To check whether the ports 80 and 443 is open I used https://portchecker.co 

As I now have a static IP I don't now need Dynu DDNS client but in Cloudflare I had to add 6 NS records and point them to Dynu nameservers. 

The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of my computer desktop site is https://home.naheez.mv and home is a subdomain which separates main domain www.naheez.mv which is a blog in Google Blogger. I have another subdomain shop.naheez.mv which is now in a webhosting company called x10hosting (before it was in a service called freehostia). The domain www.naheez.mv is registered in Dhiraagu as it's the .mv TLD (Top Level Domain) provider of Maldives.

For the moment due to my physical injury I have taken a break in developing this personal website.

Allah Akbar...Allah is great...

Dhiraagu My Account hacked

Last Saturday early morning I called Dhiraagu Customer Service Call Center to check on something and the girls at 123 told me to login to My Account in Dhiraagu web portal....

I logged into My Account and when I checked my profile I noticed and realised that my mobile phone was hacked and my Dhiraagu Mobile App was compromised...

It was done by those cyber criminal thugs of Furathama News..

A man named Saamil Hassan has changed the primary email to saamilhassan@gmail.com and primary mobile number to 7487089 and there was another mobile number 7350205 added to my profile (both numbers seems to be disconnected now as Dhiraagu's staff informed me in their Viber support )...

So to secure my Dhiraagu account I changed and restored the contact credentials back to my own details and changed the passwords.

I also updated my KYC in Dhiraagu which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and had to take a selfie of my face and upload front and back covers of my ID card with assistance by those beautiful voices of Dhiraagu 123 girls...

 

 

 

Intel and Dhiraagu shares

In late 2017, I had to spend one full day and night without sleeping searching to buy shares of my favorite company Intel Corporation (Nasdaq ticker symbol INTC). 

Starting that Thursday morning in late 2017, I was searching the internet, and it was very stressful and late that night around 1:30 AM (which was now Friday) Google shifted the search to an app called JStock which was developed in Malaysia, and it provides investing in US securities through a Fintech (Financial Technology) company named DriveWealth.

I had to deposit 10 US$ and submit a photo of my passport and DriveWealth electronically submitted the W-7 form to IRS and my investing account was opened.

I kept depositing small amounts of cash using my Visa debit card in US$ and after a few days I bought my first ever share of a company. It was Intel Corporation.

A few years ago, DriveWealth stopped serving investing accounts opened in Maldives and I had to transfer my shares to another broker.

I searched the internet this time for a few hours and found a securities investing company named Interactive Brokers which turned to be one of the largest brokers of stocks in the United States. I transferred my shares to Interactive Brokers that nigh.

In 2003 I sold my 3 shares of MTCC which my father had bought for me when I was a child.

In early 2018 I for the very first time bought a share of my favorite local company Dhivehi Raajegey Gulhun PLC (MSD ticker symbol DHR).

My broker was Aariya Securities Pvt Ltd in Male', Maldives. Now Aariya Securities Pvt Ltd has closed their operations in Male'.

Now I own 1 share of Dhiraagu and 1 share of Intel.

Allah Akbar...Allah is great...

Paid all of my Dhiraagu bills

I use all of my Dhiraagu services for personal enjoyment and derive some satisfaction after learning new things on my own using Dhiraagu provided broadband fixed line internet, mobile postpaid, web domain, telephone, and prepaid services....

All my telecommunication services are obtained and provided to me by Dhiraagu...Dhiraagu is a very good company and so is Bank of Maldives Plc (which provide my financial and banking services)...These two companies I can't live without each day...

I have finished paying all the Dhiraagu bills for last month November...Non of my services has ever been suspended by Dhiraagu for non payment of bills...I take it a very high priority to settle my bills...

I am sort of debit free, no loans to pay and so nothing to worry about too much...

Today is Wednesday 6 December 2023 and it's now 1:18 PM afternoon...

Alhamdhu Lilaahi...Praise be to Allah...Allah Akbar...Allah is great...