As the years go by...
Feb. 21st, 2011 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI created my first website in 1994 but I didn't slap up susandennis.com until about 1996, I think. At the time, domain names were free but hosting was pretty expensive and hosting space was dear. In the early years, hosting companies came and went (sometimes taking your website down with no notice or recovery at all. I actually created two more websites susandennis.org and susandennis.net because it was cheaper to have 3 small sites than one big one. And I put most of my images over on karolene.com. Plus spreading out the wealth meant that if part of the site died with a hosting company, other parts would still live on and resurrection could be done more quickly. It was the wild west.
Then things got steadier and hosting companies got more sophisticated. And prices started dropping.
I still have 4 domains at 3 different domains. I've not made a change to any of them in at least 5 years. Registration is held by yet a different company. The entire cost - registration and hosting - is $150. Which is about what my first website cost me for 50MB of storage.
Tonight I got an email from the company that hosts two of the 4 websites. The email was to let me know that each site has had its capacity expanded to 10,240MB. No extra costs. The third site (another hosting company) has room for 350MB. (I actually could consolidate all 4 domains in one of the hosting spaces now and have lots of room for growth. I probably will do that as each comes up for renewal.)
Plus, I have lots of free space on Drop Box and Mesh. I got so much room in the cloud for shit, I could make it brown!
Then things got steadier and hosting companies got more sophisticated. And prices started dropping.
I still have 4 domains at 3 different domains. I've not made a change to any of them in at least 5 years. Registration is held by yet a different company. The entire cost - registration and hosting - is $150. Which is about what my first website cost me for 50MB of storage.
Tonight I got an email from the company that hosts two of the 4 websites. The email was to let me know that each site has had its capacity expanded to 10,240MB. No extra costs. The third site (another hosting company) has room for 350MB. (I actually could consolidate all 4 domains in one of the hosting spaces now and have lots of room for growth. I probably will do that as each comes up for renewal.)
Plus, I have lots of free space on Drop Box and Mesh. I got so much room in the cloud for shit, I could make it brown!
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Date: 2011-02-22 03:23 am (UTC)(can you see that?)
I took a snapshot of you on your webcam... what are you looking at on your laptop?
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Date: 2011-02-22 03:25 am (UTC)Anyway - You're knitting, watching the tube and checking something on your laptop... what do you check there? (just nosey)
Have a good night!
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Date: 2011-02-22 03:26 am (UTC)I check LJ. I check Twitter. I check everything.
But, I love that you checked me!
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Date: 2011-02-22 06:07 pm (UTC)Darn. And here I thought I was so clever and au courant because I was building my own webpages in 1995 (via Notepad alone, no less!). I didn't get around to buying a domain name until like '99 I think... and I never made actual use of a domain name until last year (http://www.spacekidcomics.com/).