Comments on: The Long Hosting Goodbye http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1286 Jason Scott's Weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Flack http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1286/comment-page-1#comment-4808 Flack Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:17:08 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1286#comment-4808 Although I'm doing all my webhosting here at the house, I understand where you're coming from. It's where I finally got with building computers. Not being a heavy PC gamer, I found that I could buy computers from Dell cheaper than I could build them myself, and with a lot less headaches. There was a day when building a website from scratch with notepad was a badge of honor ... these days, it's a sign that you have too much free time. Although I’m doing all my webhosting here at the house, I understand where you’re coming from. It’s where I finally got with building computers. Not being a heavy PC gamer, I found that I could buy computers from Dell cheaper than I could build them myself, and with a lot less headaches. There was a day when building a website from scratch with notepad was a badge of honor … these days, it’s a sign that you have too much free time.

]]> By: Jim Leonard http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1286/comment-page-1#comment-4807 Jim Leonard Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:11:03 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1286#comment-4807 I hear you and understand. Yet I still host my stuff myself, because there are no cheap webhosting places out there that offer a functional CMS. I use Zope/Plone. I hear you and understand. Yet I still host my stuff myself, because there are no cheap webhosting places out there that offer a functional CMS. I use Zope/Plone.

]]> By: jad http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1286/comment-page-1#comment-4806 jad Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:13:03 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1286#comment-4806 Your post rings close to home. I used to have a rack of Cisco gear at home that I used for studying for various certs. I got rid of it and now rent remote racks for really cheap that I can SSH into to test my 1337 OSPF skillz. I used to keep a Linux box set up at home that I used as a shell server, I also used it to host a webpage and to store files on that I might need from somewhere else. That is all gone too now as I have a Dreamhost account that gives me all that. I am about at the point where the only hardware I have at my house is a single laptop running vmware wireless access point. It is actually kind of nice to be free of all that stuff. I feel more mobile and less weighed down. Your post rings close to home. I used to have a rack of Cisco gear at home that I used for studying for various certs. I got rid of it and now rent remote racks for really cheap that I can SSH into to test my 1337 OSPF skillz.

I used to keep a Linux box set up at home that I used as a shell server, I also used it to host a webpage and to store files on that I might need from somewhere else. That is all gone too now as I have a Dreamhost account that gives me all that.

I am about at the point where the only hardware I have at my house is a single laptop running vmware wireless access point. It is actually kind of nice to be free of all that stuff. I feel more mobile and less weighed down.

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