Domain name poll!
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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.)
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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.
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.
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Date: 2008-04-03 07:50 am (UTC)I think that hasn't been the case for years, now, and anyone who's pretending otherwise is deluding themselves.
.com .net .org are pretty much interchangeable now, in my opinion; I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting they be restricted to commercial sites/network infrastructure providers/non-profit organisations (respectively); that horse has left the stable.
(Though it's true that having a non-profit organisation take a .com domain still seems a bit unusual, and I think .net is the least used of the three big ones.)
I thought so too, but there's an afuna on myspace and flickr who *is not me*, omg.
Bluh? Wow!
I am tempted, but one reason I'm springing for a vps is to be able to run certain types of nonweb-based servers.
Ah yes, you wouldn't be happy at NFSN with that - no persistent processes of any kind.
However... that site is seriously nifty.
It is! At least I think so.
I checked them out when I found out they host bugmenot.com, and thought it was pretty nifty. Now they host all my sites but one, and DNS for one domain. (And I'd host my other main domain there, too, if DENIC didn't have silly rules about name server IP ranges.)