Drizzle's back
Dec. 20th, 2004 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOkay, well, I have drizzle back. I'm still a very unhappy Elf. Here's the lowdown: completion on the binary newsgroups sucks. I've tried two downloads and both were incomplete. Both were, admittedly foreign stuff, but I'm still annoyed that I couldn't get in and actually get the stuff I'm used to downloading. I don't know if the completion problem is because I'm on top of the stuff and the files aren't here, only the headers, or if because I'm behind in my usual vacuuming of binaries and some have expired or cancelled.
Okay, here's the low-down: I spend about $220 per year, or about $19/mo, for my Drizzle account, and I like them. They really are the good guys, mostly. And you guys have been the greatest help, keeping the account going, which pays for the webserver and ongoing access to my stories. I really appreciate that.
I'm thinking, however, of registering my own domain and going with blarg. They're $15/mo, which is nice, with a $20 start-up fee that includes registration. They don't support CGI, but if I had 50MB of disk space I wouldn't need the kooky CGI thingy I have on Drizzle; most of the things the CGI tools on Drizzle do support the fact that I have to compress my stories to make them fit inside my 10MB limit. I don't need a dial-up account; just reliable webhosting. If there's a better service out there, anyone know of it?
If I can get it down to $12/mo, I can afford Usenet, too, and do most of my "life" stuff, like surfing, email, and remote access, via speakeasy, which is my family's DSL provider.
Not to my kid, you won't: Calvin, 2004.
Okay, here's the low-down: I spend about $220 per year, or about $19/mo, for my Drizzle account, and I like them. They really are the good guys, mostly. And you guys have been the greatest help, keeping the account going, which pays for the webserver and ongoing access to my stories. I really appreciate that.
I'm thinking, however, of registering my own domain and going with blarg. They're $15/mo, which is nice, with a $20 start-up fee that includes registration. They don't support CGI, but if I had 50MB of disk space I wouldn't need the kooky CGI thingy I have on Drizzle; most of the things the CGI tools on Drizzle do support the fact that I have to compress my stories to make them fit inside my 10MB limit. I don't need a dial-up account; just reliable webhosting. If there's a better service out there, anyone know of it?
If I can get it down to $12/mo, I can afford Usenet, too, and do most of my "life" stuff, like surfing, email, and remote access, via speakeasy, which is my family's DSL provider.
Not to my kid, you won't: Calvin, 2004.
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Date: 2004-12-20 11:38 pm (UTC)For a registrar, if you do it yourself, I like gandi.net. It's something like 11 or 12 Euros a year per domain name.
(I may have never actually left a comment before, as I said "hey, that author has an LJ account" years after having discovered and liked the Journal Entries, and speaking up just to say that seemed a little odd. Since I have something useful to say now, though... Er. Hi. Thanks for the recipes!)
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Date: 2004-12-20 11:51 pm (UTC)I've been with Blarg for almost ten years, and I have always received top notch service, even when I was behind on my bills.
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Date: 2004-12-21 04:27 am (UTC)Oh, and they're in Canada, where they like really do defend freedom, eh?
Let's put it this way. If I didn't have my colo in a good libertarian friend's basement, hung off his real T1, for free, I'd be using them in a New York minute.
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Date: 2004-12-21 07:04 am (UTC)ICDsoft.com
Date: 2004-12-21 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-22 04:18 am (UTC)Damn. That's fookin sad.
Now he's "normal".
*sigh*