Preface: The following blogs cover a brief period of poverty during which I was unable to restart my site. Instead I wrote offline and gathered the files with hopes of posting them shorty. This is shortly…
I woke this morning to discover my website was down. This is an unusual occurrence, which is usually predicated by weather or nuclear strike. This time the culprit was cold hard cash. I run the talislegger website on a biennial subscription and as it turns out it is time to pay the piper. That raised an interesting question: Do I actually need to own a piece of a server in order to effectively run a website?
Short answer: No. I picked up the server space around the turn of the century when I masqueraded as Djmalik and had a lot of proprietary data housed at djmalik.com. I had kids in triplicate and retired from the biz (though I feel a mixtape coming on). Djmalik died out alongside thoughtwired.com and a handful of other websites I maintained for various purposes.
Today I don’t have those sites or any real need for server space. The 10 Minute rule is more or less the extent of my web presence, so I’m basically parking a domain name with limited use. No, don’t go hack my extra storage. Bad hacker. Bad! The truth is the server remains as a promise and an opportunity for growth. I did more on the web once, and one day I could do more again.
Once I figure out what exactly I want from the Interwebs…