No more home hosting
October 30th, 2008 | by Sean |Apparently we just need to give a few day’s notice to our local TM Point to terminate our Streamyx service. We’ve had it more than 2 years, and upgraded to 1Mbit/s last year. I was hosting a few sites of my own, just little ideas I wanted to work on, using Dynamic DNS from ZoneEdit. My wife hosted her online shop from a server in our home office too, using Custom DNS from DynDNS.com – the best company I have ever dealt with on the Internet.
I have never phoned a service provider as often as I have phoned TM Net. I think I’ve even phoned them more often than I have the local pizza delivery service, so we’re talking a lot of phone calls! Because we host some of our own sites from home, we have a very stable network. It has stayed in one layout for nearly two years, since we moved into this house. There were a few months at at the start of 2008 when nothing really serious seemed to be wrong with Streamyx. The occasional slow-spell is bearable. Other than that, the whole period has been characterised by more or less show-stopping faults. Some days, even the phone was dead!
I don’t want to flog a dead horse, I’ve written about this elsewhere, so suffice to say, it was so unbearably bad, we’re cancelling it and going to DiGi’s EDGE network. That means no more home-hosting, as the Malaysian cellular networks don’t support Dynamic DNS. I’ll have to find something else to while away the months! My wife’s shop has gone to Exabytes, so the Custom DNS is redundant. The Dynamic DNS from ZoneEdit has a handy feature for redirecting URLs, so this page will appear instead of:
- poditronic.com
- spider.my
- aircarfuel.com
- sendto.my
- send2.my
- blog.lolyco.com/sean
…until I get round to making something amazing to host on one of those domains, or unless someone thinks they can do it quicker, and would like to take a domain off my hands!