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At least own your domain name and be able to easily move your website content to whereever you want. I think for most people it's cheaper and more convenient t

At least own your domain name and be able to easily move your website content to whereever you want. I think for most people it's cheaper and more convenient to use a hosting service, and that's fine... as long as you can change hosting services. I've had my personal site ( https://dwheeler.com https://dwheeler.com ) since 1999. As noted in https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html my site has been hosted on 4 different systems, and I'm sure that I will move again at some point. Users won't notice - or care - because I can easily move to some other service.

drdeadringer 7y ago
> At least own your domain name I agree and I have a story to add to this. Despite there being a couple ways to spell my first name and literally dozens of ways to spell my last name, I share the same name as a rock star of similar age as myself down to the letter. While I do understand I didn't necessarily need a ".com" TLD URL and that I had other TLD options, it was the first availability I checked for obvious reasons; this is how I discovered my semi-famed name-double. I eventually went with a ".net" TLD URL of my name and it's turned out alright so far -- and it makes perfect sense to me that my alternate actually should have the ".com" version instead of myself. I'm content, likely even happy, with how things turned out. Enter SEO stage left.
- 0xfeba 7y ago
  You're lucky the Rock Star doesn't go all Nissan.com on you (which appears to be NLA).
lancesells 7y ago
Yes. I've had run my own site since 2000 ( https://www.lancesells.com https://www.lancesells.com ) moving it around multiple times. The only thing I've really changed is moving to a static site so there's one less thing to export or import(database). Having my own website I've worked on keeping it speedy and not reliant on any javascript.
a1369209993 7y ago
> At least own your domain name Serious question: How? Aside from .onion[0], all TLDs I know of only allow you to rent a domain name, and will take it away if you don't keep paying their protection racket year-on-year. I would be happy to pay >1000$ to purchase a (human-readable, second-level, etc) domain, if I could actually find where to do so. 0: which is less "own" and more "conjure out of the platonic ether something that no one else is capable of using".
- rolph 7y ago
  try out freedns.afraid.org there is a small fee for a premium private account, or you can ride on supermans cape for free and make a secondary domain on those who choose to make thier domain public.
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    That doesn't help you own a domain name. That just lets you configure DNS for domains.
    - gjs278 7y ago
      it has free subdomains you can use
      - Thorrez 7y ago
        Yes, but that doesn't solve any of the problems that a1369209993 mentioned. Those subdomains can be taken away from you at any time. You have no legal ownership of them.
- vinay_ys 7y ago
  It's like paying property tax to the government. Even if you own it, you have to pay to keep up the infrastructure, I guess.
kartan 7y ago
> since 1999 That is really impressive. I purchased my first domain around that year. But, I failed to keep it up to date. I have moved 4 times to different domains. And, it has been the last one that I have updated for the past 5 years or so. The rest are lost. I really like your "Slashdotted" section. It brings back a lot of memories.

drdeadringer 7y ago

> At least own your domain name I agree and I have a story to add to this. Despite there being a couple ways to spell my first name and literally dozens of ways to spell my last name, I share the same name as a rock star of similar age as myself down to the letter. While I do understand I didn't necessarily need a ".com" TLD URL and that I had other TLD options, it was the first availability I checked for obvious reasons; this is how I discovered my semi-famed name-double. I eventually went with a ".net" TLD URL of my name and it's turned out alright so far -- and it makes perfect sense to me that my alternate actually should have the ".com" version instead of myself. I'm content, likely even happy, with how things turned out. Enter SEO stage left.

0xfeba 7y ago
You're lucky the Rock Star doesn't go all Nissan.com on you (which appears to be NLA).

lancesells 7y ago

Yes. I've had run my own site since 2000 ( https://www.lancesells.com https://www.lancesells.com ) moving it around multiple times. The only thing I've really changed is moving to a static site so there's one less thing to export or import(database). Having my own website I've worked on keeping it speedy and not reliant on any javascript.

a1369209993 7y ago

> At least own your domain name Serious question: How? Aside from .onion[0], all TLDs I know of only allow you to rent a domain name, and will take it away if you don't keep paying their protection racket year-on-year. I would be happy to pay >1000$ to purchase a (human-readable, second-level, etc) domain, if I could actually find where to do so. 0: which is less "own" and more "conjure out of the platonic ether something that no one else is capable of using".

rolph 7y ago
try out freedns.afraid.org there is a small fee for a premium private account, or you can ride on supermans cape for free and make a secondary domain on those who choose to make thier domain public.
- Thorrez 7y ago
  That doesn't help you own a domain name. That just lets you configure DNS for domains.
  - gjs278 7y ago
    it has free subdomains you can use
    - Thorrez 7y ago
      Yes, but that doesn't solve any of the problems that a1369209993 mentioned. Those subdomains can be taken away from you at any time. You have no legal ownership of them.
vinay_ys 7y ago
It's like paying property tax to the government. Even if you own it, you have to pay to keep up the infrastructure, I guess.

kartan 7y ago

> since 1999 That is really impressive. I purchased my first domain around that year. But, I failed to keep it up to date. I have moved 4 times to different domains. And, it has been the last one that I have updated for the past 5 years or so. The rest are lost. I really like your "Slashdotted" section. It brings back a lot of memories.