Monthly Archive for January, 2006

Micro Hosting

I’m almost up to the point where I’m hosting 100 domains and associated sites and email for friends, small businesses and my own projects. It’s a nice thing to be able to do for people. Most non-nerds would have real trouble organising all the things that need to be done to get to the point of having your own website and email address.

Trouble and Process

As well as finding the people or companies to work with, these are the some of the major required steps:

  • Think of a domain name
  • Register the domain name
  • Understand the desired results from the site
  • Work out what scale and functionality is needed from the host and server
  • Build the site, upload the site, test the site, market the site
  • Make the site appear in search engines (SEO)
  • Keep the site updated
  • Setup mailboxes or forwarding

Most people would not realise there can be so many steps, and this could be quite a daunting list of things to do!

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Things to Blog

With life being a bit hectic recently i’ve not had much time to write anything yet…. i suppose that’s a good thing in a way, it means i’ve been busy!

Some of the things i’ve been meaning to blog for a while are:

  1. My manifesto for new media in the developing world
  2. Why Google won’t become a web host
  3. My top 5 films (currently. Everyone else has blogged it, so should I :)
  4. Frisbee survival tips

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