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> Worst yet, they took down all my projects and confiscated all my domains Never put all your eggs in one basket. Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS w
by ForkMeOnTinder 3y ago
> Worst yet, they took down all my projects and confiscated all my domains
Never put all your eggs in one basket.
Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS with another. Hosting, a third.
If you have activist-type projects that might attract the attention of powerful people or companies, keep those segregated from your more banal projects in their own isolated accounts.
It sucks seeing people learn this the hard way.
- amadeuspagel 3y ago> Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS with another. Hosting, a third. This just means that there are three companies that can shut you down.
- asadm 3y agoBut not completely, at the same time
- amadeuspagel 3y agoYes, completely. If you lack any of these things you are shut down completely
- bezhermoso 3y agoThis saga clearly is a counterpoint.
- kadoban 3y agoIt's typically a lot easier to recover from the loss of one of those than all of them at once.
- SahAssar 3y agoDomains and hosting are usually seen very differently. Your domain is a lot closer to property, while the hosting is commonly shut down anytime it is seen as inconvenient by the provider. If you combine them on the same provider you risk loosing access to the former because you lost the latter, the providers that host all the services also tend to have blurred lines between disabling one service and disabling your whole account.
- apitman 3y agoI agree on hosting, but what additional advantage does separating your DNS from domain registry add?
- xp84 3y agoIf the person who is trying to get you shut down targets the DNS provider, and they decide "Yup, let's shut them down," if they also happen to be your registrar, you could end up with your domain name confiscated or locked up.