I have rented my domain, euphon.org through these guys since 2005. Because my housemate changed ISPs we no longer have static IPs and so don't host our own mail and web servers. The result is that now I am exposed to the predation of register.com and other ISPs who have worked up a business model that nickel and dmes the consumer. This all starts with other sleezeoid providers like Comcast, the slime, who provide DHCP. This gives them the power to charge too much for web hosting and for web page tools. Register.com provides one free page of web hosting but its interface is crumby and chinzy. There is an inverse relationship between the cost of storing web pages and what they charge for hosting and that is because the restriction of domain space and IP addresses provides an opportunities for ISVs to gouge. This may also explain why IP6 hasn't caught on, because the four octet IP range provides the business opportunity these guys want. It is true that there are dynamic DNS servers that can get around this, but you pay for those as well. It isn't that I don't want to pay, it is that I don't want to be ripped off, and register.com is a ripoff.
It turns out that this, blogger, might be a good alternative, until Google starts charging for it. I may abandon my web site and just post content to a couple of blogs here.
No comments:
Post a Comment