nothing is permanent online
2012-Jan-27, Friday 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerAm I being an old fogey for wanting email, profile, and webpage all at the same domain name? I'm having problems making payments (various errors from their server) on my grandfathered account at Earthlink, so I'm pondering ditching the service after a decade of use.
These days, most people just use the free providers (gmail, yahoo, hotmail) for email, they use the free social networks for their "About Me" online introduction pages, and they use free blogs if they want to write their own webpages. Maybe I should stop clinging to my old Earthlink addresses that do all of these things under one roof?
My old webpage service is limited to 10 MB (yes, that's not a typo), so I really should upgrade to something else. If I ever leave this subscription, though, then I lose the specific url that I've used for a very long time. I have urls published online. Some of my writings on autism have their urls cited in presentations and even a footnote in somebody's book. Am I ready to give up that link to the past? I wish I had a DOI for those pages, so moving them wouldn't harm anyone's chance to find them later.
I guess I won't have a choice if I can't get any of my payment options to process. I normally use enom for my domain registration. Maybe I should buy a new domain name and start moving my webpages there? What name, though? I need something suitable for both personal and professional use. But I don't have any ideas. *sigh*
These days, most people just use the free providers (gmail, yahoo, hotmail) for email, they use the free social networks for their "About Me" online introduction pages, and they use free blogs if they want to write their own webpages. Maybe I should stop clinging to my old Earthlink addresses that do all of these things under one roof?
My old webpage service is limited to 10 MB (yes, that's not a typo), so I really should upgrade to something else. If I ever leave this subscription, though, then I lose the specific url that I've used for a very long time. I have urls published online. Some of my writings on autism have their urls cited in presentations and even a footnote in somebody's book. Am I ready to give up that link to the past? I wish I had a DOI for those pages, so moving them wouldn't harm anyone's chance to find them later.
I guess I won't have a choice if I can't get any of my payment options to process. I normally use enom for my domain registration. Maybe I should buy a new domain name and start moving my webpages there? What name, though? I need something suitable for both personal and professional use. But I don't have any ideas. *sigh*
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Date: 2012-Jan-28, Saturday 01:51 pm (UTC)I'm not having any luck finding something easy to spell but still available for purchase. :(