Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Frankly, the continuous decline in service for my purposes is causing
> me to think seriously for the first time about getting my own domain.
> At least then it would be "portable" and immune to provider whims.

Personal domains FTW!  alfter.us started out on an old machine at home, pressed
into server duty and connected through my cable modem (yes, I had the
business-grade service that allowed this use).  Currently, it's on a VPS at
Slicehost.  Less storage is available as I can't just slap another hard drive
in there (I could pay for more storage if needed...would probably just use
Amazon S3 for offering up large files), but it's on a much fatter pipe (at
least 10 Mbps upstream, vs. 256 kbps over the cable modem).

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