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Domain is now in middle of transference to new registrar.
Cablevision is now my dumb pipe, as they should be. And they are now expendable. I can't wait.
This time around I went for usability/easy over cheap, and still came out ahead. After years of hosting my own mail and web servers in my house, I now have:
dyndns: registrar, dns, dyndns
gmail.com: mail
MobileMe: web, file sharing, etc
Total cost: $142/yr.
Cablevision's 'Boost' package that did squat but open up ports 80 and 25 on my modem? $180/yr.
Yeah, this is much better. Somewhere along the way, 'roll my own' became troublesome *and* expensive. WTH?
Cablevision is now my dumb pipe, as they should be. And they are now expendable. I can't wait.
This time around I went for usability/easy over cheap, and still came out ahead. After years of hosting my own mail and web servers in my house, I now have:
dyndns: registrar, dns, dyndns
gmail.com: mail
MobileMe: web, file sharing, etc
Total cost: $142/yr.
Cablevision's 'Boost' package that did squat but open up ports 80 and 25 on my modem? $180/yr.
Yeah, this is much better. Somewhere along the way, 'roll my own' became troublesome *and* expensive. WTH?