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

[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