If you're interested in seeing some of my work
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:16 pm
You can take a look at the all new IhnStae.com, they had a really great special at GoDaddy when I decided to renew IhnStae.info, I could also get .com, .net, .mobi (first time for a mobile address for me) and a couple others for $17.99, so I took them too. As it notes on the domain, I only decided to register instae.info because the first year is at the loss-leader bargain price of $1.04 including fees. (I have to go in and change all the references now to ihnstae.com instead of ihnstae.info).
I have a tic-tac-toe game, a page where you can lock yourself out of part of the information, and even a registration system. Basically I realized if I wanted to get someone to hire me to do programming I should do the same thing some other guy did to convince me to hire him for something I knew I couldn't do: he did a demo showing me exactly what I wanted, and though it was expensive, it was perfect. I basically paid a guy $80 for what turned out to be 20 lines of code, but it was the exact perfect 20 lines, and I knew I didn't have the math background to write it myself.
Thinking about it, I might just register both versions of paul-robinson (with and without the hyphen) in .mobi, I'm not sure if it's worth $14, but then again, the more I grab the fewer there are for the other Paul Robinsons in the world to take ahead of me.
I messed up and let one of the .info ones go, so of .com, .net, .info, .name, .us, .org and .biz, there are 14 versions and I own 8 of them (I used to own 9). I know I have both of .org and .us and I used to have both of .info, I only have one now.
In fact, I have a new policy. When I start a programming project for a customer I set up a new domain name for that project because the price to put it in .info is that ridiculously low $1.04, so it's trivial to use a new domain name for each one, and if I finish before the domain expires and I have another job, I recycle it for that one.
But IhnStae will remain my demo, it's shorter than my company site, http://viridian-development.com and also I'm not mixing demonstration or customer data with corporate data and maybe getting confused.
Also, one thing I do because I don't trust GoDaddy when it comes to hosting, is I use them for DNS and nameserver only, I host elsewhere. They have restrictions on what you can put on free hosting - which don't really affect me but I've heard other people sometimes have had domains on GoDaddy shut down because someone complained when they didn't like the content the person was running - and because I can get paid hosting from somewhere else much cheaper.
It's also a good policy to use one company for DNS/registrar and someone else for hosting, so neither can hold your site hostage, if anything goes wrong you can move one, the other or both someplace else and worst case you're off-line for one day until the caches reset.
I use a different company (KVC) for hosting, right now it's costing me $8 per month (because I didn't really want to pay the full 3 years in advance right now, I took it for 3 months) and I can host up to 50 separate domain names, and if and when I do decide to take the full 3 years, it's under $2 a month. GoDaddy's price is basically slightly higher and I think you only get one domain at a time on paid hosting.
I did this because I'm using the other company's low cost hosting, which supports up to 5 domains and is a one-time charge of $20. It's supposed to require a small text ad at the bottom of your pages but it's not putting one in, so it's okay.
GoDaddy's free hosting puts a full-size banner at the top of every page. It also means you can't do dynamic document generation because any web-page generated gets an ad stuck in the top.
I just checked it. KVC allows up to 50 domain names on their roughly $1.99 a month hosting (if you pay 3 years upfront) vs. $2.99 a month for GoDaddy (if you pay 3 years upfront) and their economy hosting allows one domain name. Once the guy who owes me money accepts the job I did and releases the funds, I'm upping my registration to three years from the three months.
I have a tic-tac-toe game, a page where you can lock yourself out of part of the information, and even a registration system. Basically I realized if I wanted to get someone to hire me to do programming I should do the same thing some other guy did to convince me to hire him for something I knew I couldn't do: he did a demo showing me exactly what I wanted, and though it was expensive, it was perfect. I basically paid a guy $80 for what turned out to be 20 lines of code, but it was the exact perfect 20 lines, and I knew I didn't have the math background to write it myself.
Thinking about it, I might just register both versions of paul-robinson (with and without the hyphen) in .mobi, I'm not sure if it's worth $14, but then again, the more I grab the fewer there are for the other Paul Robinsons in the world to take ahead of me.
I messed up and let one of the .info ones go, so of .com, .net, .info, .name, .us, .org and .biz, there are 14 versions and I own 8 of them (I used to own 9). I know I have both of .org and .us and I used to have both of .info, I only have one now.
In fact, I have a new policy. When I start a programming project for a customer I set up a new domain name for that project because the price to put it in .info is that ridiculously low $1.04, so it's trivial to use a new domain name for each one, and if I finish before the domain expires and I have another job, I recycle it for that one.
But IhnStae will remain my demo, it's shorter than my company site, http://viridian-development.com and also I'm not mixing demonstration or customer data with corporate data and maybe getting confused.
Also, one thing I do because I don't trust GoDaddy when it comes to hosting, is I use them for DNS and nameserver only, I host elsewhere. They have restrictions on what you can put on free hosting - which don't really affect me but I've heard other people sometimes have had domains on GoDaddy shut down because someone complained when they didn't like the content the person was running - and because I can get paid hosting from somewhere else much cheaper.
It's also a good policy to use one company for DNS/registrar and someone else for hosting, so neither can hold your site hostage, if anything goes wrong you can move one, the other or both someplace else and worst case you're off-line for one day until the caches reset.
I use a different company (KVC) for hosting, right now it's costing me $8 per month (because I didn't really want to pay the full 3 years in advance right now, I took it for 3 months) and I can host up to 50 separate domain names, and if and when I do decide to take the full 3 years, it's under $2 a month. GoDaddy's price is basically slightly higher and I think you only get one domain at a time on paid hosting.
I did this because I'm using the other company's low cost hosting, which supports up to 5 domains and is a one-time charge of $20. It's supposed to require a small text ad at the bottom of your pages but it's not putting one in, so it's okay.
GoDaddy's free hosting puts a full-size banner at the top of every page. It also means you can't do dynamic document generation because any web-page generated gets an ad stuck in the top.
I just checked it. KVC allows up to 50 domain names on their roughly $1.99 a month hosting (if you pay 3 years upfront) vs. $2.99 a month for GoDaddy (if you pay 3 years upfront) and their economy hosting allows one domain name. Once the guy who owes me money accepts the job I did and releases the funds, I'm upping my registration to three years from the three months.