WHEE!

[kickaha]

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?

Comments

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Somewhere along the way, 'roll my own' became troublesome *and* expensive. WTH?

This is expected. Demand leads to scale, scale leads to automation, automation leads to lower costs. At the same time, the resources available to support the individual, manual effort dry up. It's the same thing that is killing/has killed the small family farm.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm not sure I buy the equivalence between digital resources and physical ones, but sure. I'll run with it.

[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

Re: that last line - that's the world that most of us "techno-mundanes" live in all the time ;)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

LOL It used to be that rolling my own was cheaper than hosting elsewhere, and I had many more services available to me... I'd expect cheaper+less, or expensive+more to be the end point, but expensive *and* less? Wacky.

So what you're saying is... the techno-mundanes have it good with cheap and more. :D