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> You may think you own your website, but do you really? What if your host goes offline? Spin up another one? Plenty of service providers to choose from. > Wh
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
> You may think you own your website, but do you really? What if your host goes offline?
Spin up another one? Plenty of service providers to choose from.
> What if your domain name registrar suddenly gives your name away?
Then I can sue them for breach of contract. There are very few and very specific circumstances where they are allowed to do that, pertaining to my own misuse of the domain.
Furthermore, to transfer my domain requires a hard copy of a random code snail-mailed to my home address from the Ministry of Communications. My domain is secure.
> You don’t own your website,
I very much do.
> you do own your Dwebsite.
Citation needed. Where are they actually hosted? How are they accessed? What mechanisms facilitate the existence of these "dwebsites" in the first place? Who's paying for the storage, bandwidth, and uptime?
- bguebert 5y ago>Plenty of service providers to choose from. It's important to be very careful to avoid vendor lock in to keep the option to switch. Parler made that mistake and when Amazon dropped them they had a hard time moving. Providers are constantly trying to lock you in to their particular services.
- jimmygrapes 5y agoA consequence of reliance on "cloud" services, exacerbated by tutorial glut and minimal service interoperability without fairly significant training/experience.