Geoserver and external website hosting

I have set up a webpage that calls wms from geoserver operating on localhost and using openlayers as a front end. Everything works perfectly well. The next step, however, causes a few issues. My website is hosted on an external server by another company. Therefore, when 开发者_如何学运维i upload the webpage it will not work, is there a way to solve this issue? I only have access to the website through the ftp

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You should contact your service provider and ask about running GeoServer on the public webserver. If you can't run GeoServer in an Internet-accessible place, then your options are severely limited. Depending on how complicated/large your data is, you could consider generating a GeoJSON dump of your data set and using OpenLayers' vector styling to perform the rendering client-side. You could generate GeoJSON from GeoServer on your local machine and then upload it as a static file to your hosting provider. OpenLayers would allow you to overlay this data on a publicly available tileset like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap.