Domain name poll!

[afuna]

[Poll #1165041]

My original plan was to get one year of shared hosting at Dreamhost ($9.95 a month which includes domain name, and a lot of nifty things all ready and conveniently set up). But then further conversations with Abby led me to start eying a VPS (Dreamhost offers a plan, invite-only, which adds another $15.95 per month.)

Then I talked to ciaran_h, and now I'm leaning towards taking a couple of months at Linode, the cheapest plan has $19.95 a month but I have to pay a bit extra for a domain name, since the plan doesn't come with that, so I may end up doing Linode + GoDaddy. Um, unless I choose to do a .com.ph name, but I somewhat prefer the simplicity of a .com domain.

(Oh, but Dreamhost also offers domain name. I can try there as well ^_^ I just need to figure out what the difference between the two is, if any)

Linode seems to have less convenient things set up for you, but you have root access, so more flexibility, and I find that exciting. But assuming I decide that a VPS is more than I need, Dreamhost would let me drop the VPS bit, and move back to shared hosting.

At this point, though, I may just decide to take Linode, so that I'll have more options if I ever choose to use them. It's not like I'm doing anything important with that money, anyway, and the freedom it would give me to play is tantalizing.

Comments

[aveleh]

mmmm, root access vps.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

I like afunamatata better than afunawired, but both are good.

[pne.livejournal.com]

afuna.net and afuna.info are still free... are you worried that if you use a non-.com TLD people will get confused?

Weird, I would have expected afuna.com and afuna.org to be, too. It seemed like a name nobody else would have.

If you're interested in shared hosting, check out http://www.NearlyFreeSpeech.net/ -- it's pay as you go, so if you have few visitors you might even end up paying nothing at all for months, until the bandwidth and/or storage charges add up to $0.01! Plus I like the tech guy there and the support. (You can also get domains through them if you want; $8 IIRC.)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Your text entry box is too short! 255 chars, please :(

I was also going to suggest afu.na (in Namibia's ccTLD)!

[pauamma]

Since you mentioned that people may misread afunabafuna, aren't you also concerned about misreading afunawired as afunaweird? Or would that count as a pro?

[atomic-clay.livejournal.com]

Haha afunamatata is funny! :D

[tango.livejournal.com]

Based on feedback from friends of mine, avoid Dreamhost.

[juin.livejournal.com]

What is this domain for? Hard to say which name sounds better if I don't know whether it's for serious or not-so-serious purposes. :/ Though I still don't see why you think "afunabafuna" is easily misread as "afunabanana". I mean, "afunabafuna" rhymes, and that's the whole point, right?

Also, speaking of domains: MINE IS WORKING NOW. *tears of joy*

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

bakit ayaw mo ng afuna.net? hmmm

if you want to know, i have my hosting at e-starr.com... i think it's pretty expensive but i've been with them since i was in high school... and they have fast download and upload speeds... hmmm... good customer support...

[chasethestars.livejournal.com]

Dreamhost offers discount codes for referrals. If that's what you decide to go with, let me know how much off you want!

[ivles.livejournal.com]

I like afunabanana, because you're so random ;-)

BTW, how do you post twitter tweets into LJ.com? I found the URL a few weeks ago and now I lost it :/