Ehhhh, not that I would know but.....
You will find that most ISP's now block both the web and mail server ports, they just can't be used. But, that's easy enough to get around. At least with web ports.
As far as watching outgoing bandwidth. Shoot, there is a huge amount of uploading that occurs anymore because of streaming video/audio/p2p. Web Cams, sharing of pictures, voice communications, hell... Sharing of files.
Now that you bring up the topic of FTP running, I haven't found an ISP yet that blocks that port. Which is pretty strange.
My personal opinion. ISP's throttle your speeds anyway. With the biggest cap being on uploads. They know it's happening, and they know that personal web sites being run from home servers are the least of their worries. P2P in my eyes would be the biggest offender. They still are turning a blind eye.
Not that I would ever run a home ftp/web server from my home. Naaa, honest sir. It's for my home network which you know about.
By the way, zone edit is a free dns which I have seen automatic updating applications be used to keep the dns up to date with the correct isp. Spend 8 dollars, register a domain, and you can do pretty much what you want just by signing up with zone edit. They even have ssl login to the dns maintenance pages for security purposes.
Dan
