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Posted by Ed Mullen on 09/02/06 05:25
dorayme wrote:
> In article <I7KdnW0_OvqFamXZnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
>
>>> Mate, I think the 40 buckeroos I shell out is worth it!
>>>
>> I did for a while too. and then I had to consider what I was already
>> paying for and it had enough space. but, yes, lots of plans out there to
>> consider, not one answer is right for everyone. And the "built-in"
>> space rarely has any server-side functions so many of the solutions
>> touted here simply are not options for many folk.
>
> I get the uncanny feeling of us talking over slightly crossed
> wires... but this may be because I am hazy on some of these
> things. What I know is this: I have a private web domain. I host
> it on a remote server and pay 40 bucks a year for this. It has
> PHP and a lot of stuff. Its limitation seems to be merely
> miserable (10MB) webspace which it shares with email. This is no
> problem as I piggy back files from other servers... I also have
> my own ISP for my broadband connection and I get 10MB there too.
> This is a totally different server and the webspace is free. In
> addition I have access to all sorts of webspace courtesy of
> friends and orgs that do not use all theirs. (Why hell, I even
> have a free dorayme one that I don't use any more because it has
> ads, is awful generally and it irritated Korpela once, I actually
> don't blame him, it irritated me.)
>
> I am seeing this advantage for me to keep it:
>
> When it says mydomain.com.au in browser url bars, this remains
> true as the left most bit of the url and does not play tricks.
> That is worth 40 bucks.
>
> One of the sites I maintain is a site for a teaching organization
> and it is pointed in some way to a local University server now,
> but it acquires (rather confusedly for most people, not me) the
> uni server address. You type in something like www.teaching.org
> and you then get the sort of tricky little play in the url bar
> that had it been done by any poker player across the table would
> result in him losing his hand, (yes, his paw) by an enraged me.
> It acquires the uni server address www.uni.com.au/arts/blah blah
> instead of what the user types in.
>
Unless I'm missing it, we're saying the same thing, vis-a-vis the domain
stuff. But, hey, it's 1:20AM here and I'm off to bed since the chance
of my saying anything moderately coherent now is pretty slim.
Oh, crap. I lost my cell phone! Wait ... I'll call it from my home
phone ... oh! Yep, I hear it ringing out on the deck ... ok. All's
right with the world. Sorta. ;-) Manana.
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