I’m definitely getting my blog going regularly again… next year…
Easy decision, I pay every time.
my domain is my media server, so id rather not end my domain.
Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.
Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!
Do a retro! Lol
Don’t worry, the dream lives on!
VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!
I’d be tempted to buy that. When you visit it’s just a white page with a leather couch in the middle of the screen, everytime you click the couch it would moan seductively and every fifth click would give a squelch sound.
i did recently go through and turn off auto renewal on a few. I still have several projects i never launched though that I’m holding out hope for… someday
This is why I never bought a domain. Can’t give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!
Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff
How much are you selling for?
Selling? I host things for myself, not others. Except my Lemmy instance I suppose, that’s public.
This is the way. I would be lost without a domain. Even mail is selfhosted with my domain. But I only use subdomains, the real domain is abandoned.
See email is one of the few things I don’t host. I host a webmail frontend, and use my domain. But PurelyMail is an amazing service that’s so cheap it’s basically free at personal scale with very few limits. I didn’t really care to try and deal with having all my mail sent to spam.
I just use stalwart - mail, it’s just one docker container, has bleeding edge functions like jmap and there is no need of deeper knowledge. I refer my domain on the settings and got a list of all needed dns-records.
It takes 2-4 days to get SSL and dmarc answers from the big mail-players and if there is nothing wrong with your IP or your records then there is no mail going into spam of someone else.
Been with purely mail for about a year and it’s been great!
I have an HP mini PC behind the router, noip.com, no money spent
no money spent
Well… electricity.
Same with the HP mini PC. But I have a $12/yr dotcom domain and a script on my server updates the DNS record anytime the IP changes.
I recommend cloudflare WARP
I used noip.com for like 30 or 60 days. Then I got really annoyed at having to renew the DDNS every 30 days. After switching to duckdns.org I haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s completely free and you don’t have to renew anything manually. You obliviously still need to have a script running to update the DDNS though, otherwise it wouldn’t be very dynamic would it.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
Just buy it for ten years. You’re ultimately saving money and it’ll give you more time to incubate your dream!
You know what’s worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.
whole-ass milk
Whole ass-milk
Whole\ ̲a̲s̲s̲ ̲ /milk
I like to think that glass is half-ass full.
What happened?
I’m gonna guess search engine down ranking.
Nice work man. Fuck the internet and its dark ass wizards.
Pay $12, can’t let some other jerk have my dream.
Neither. If I’m not using the domain, I can pretend I still have it.
That’s not neither, it’s one of the options.
Which one?
The other one
And then it becomes a pornsite.
On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!
Out of curiosity; who is providing the mail service? Or are you self-hosting? Trying to organise mine, hoping I can get it done maybe 19 years quicker.
I use Hover. They’re based in Canada and I’ve been using them for years for my business domain and email. Was an easy choice for personal too. Every time I’ve had to call the tech support they have fixed the problem super fast, did extra stuff, and were super lovely. $20 a year for a small mailbox each, which is more than enough for us.
I just set my domain email up with Zoho. Was easy enough and they have a free option. Although I pay $1.25/mo per user for two users, just to get a little extra storage space and be able to use SMTP and ActiveSync to send email from my servers for notifications and use a different mobile app than their default one.
I self host email. Email is easy. I went a tad overboard with database configuration, a configuration/password change program, a few virtual hosts so I can renew six different names, but a single domain on a Linux box (any flavour) is easy
It makes it easy to make a bespoke email address for every entity you interact with, or show them the respect they deserve by giving your valid email [email protected]
It is a bit of a hobby though. You need to keep up with email security if you want to send to anyone.
Truer words never spoken
