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Online domain services with 99.95% uptime, robust SSL, email, and backup features. Serving 20 million users with user-friendly hosting plans and a free domain for the first term. Largest domain registrar, offering a variety of cloud services, VPS, and website builder tools.
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A Few of My Favourite Thangs (Master List)
Greetings. Welcome. Let us Begin.
This is list is brought to you by Nemesis. And this music is brought to you by WinkiesPlace.
"WinkiesPlays," ... cut to old style radio commercial in the middle of a baseball game for WinkiesPays - 'the fun and friendly socialiste party all your friends are joining. What are you waiting for? Join the party!!!' ;) {Sam Roberts plays the coke stage at the Calgary Stampede - the crowd sings along "S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M it's the only way!" - 'Do they even know what they are saying?' someone wonders with an incredibly direct and intense query straight into my face. I'm not sure what they want but it seems my very barest and darkest soul is on the line as their eyes bore into me from 600 feet overhead. Sam Roberts wants something from us this evening, and it's supposed to be obvious, simple, effortless, easy as singing along to a catchy little song, it's a solid point, I know that for sure, what it is... i haven't the foggiest.}
On we go...
A few reasons this list exists:
Primarily - I am trying to prepare, publish, market, etc. a musical project I've been working on for the last little while. To get a T-shirt design up along with a sensible artist bio and some quality 'finished' music is the goal so that the project can be advertised and funded and then finished and released for you, the glorious interested public, to sink ur dirty little bloodsucking teeth into ;) but i have autism and add and a bunch of other seriously cute disabilities that have been... anyway, stuff gets tough sum times, even with all the privileges of my particular identifiers, whatever, point is I'm just trying to get shit done as best and fast and effectively as I can lol.
Secondly,
I'm trying to migrate to a Linux desktop as my main rig ASAP from Mac and using this list as a way of making it as seamless as possible. I just want to run Windows and Mac VMs inside the Linux setup - just to have them available - rolling of the eyes - ...this migration has been started and stopped and left some version of my productive, creative self in some kind of hellscape limbo, feels to my nervous system a bit like what I imagine the Shrike's Tree of ??? (look up) to imbue upon it's Users.
Criterion: (very rough, but also extremely specific lol) ... A Multi Platform/Open Source/Privacy Focused as Possible Tool Kit
Follow along as the story jumps from here to there, platform to platform, like Mario and Luigi chasing that ever receding Peach.
... a list in progress. (aka check back ... you never know where or when the story is going to update itself ;) best thing to do is... whatever u want lol
















Comments and Reviews
GoDaddy is actively supporting the SOPA bill in the US, which is more than enough reason not to support them.
There are far better alternatives with open ethical business practices.
Gandi.net, for example, supports all kinds of open source projects, doesn't spam customers, the interface is friendly and usable and their support is excellent.
Another good alternative is name.com, a small but very dedicated company that keeps their customers happy and secure without compromising on integrity.
Please seriously consider _not _ to use GoDaddy the next time you register a domain name. And if you have domain names at GoDaddy, it's not difficult to transfer them to other registrars.
And join the "Move your domain day" boycott (google it) if you still have time!
There are a number of reasons why GoDaddy is hated and the biggest is probably their support of SOPA. Due to a large public backlash they eventually walked back their support (but left open the possibility of supporting a similar but better worded law in their statement). The backlash was so big even wikipedia moved their domain registrations away from GoDaddy. That was 2012 and I still won't use them, their whole attitude and actions during that time left a very lasting bad impression for many tech people - and they haven't done anything to redeem themselves.
I remember when the SOPA business started, I had a few personal domains with GoDaddy that I wasn't using and had almost forgotten about. I called them up to switch (you had to call back then) and I was on hold for almost an hour, finally I got through to a rep and when I said I wanted to switch registrars and why he just let out a huge sigh and proceeded to process my transaction like he had already done something similar hundreds of times that day.
Also they have a dominant position mostly due to advertising and name recognition, not due to any standout features or support. Go with any other non EIG hosting provider.
They always try to sell what you do not need. And they succeed, because they add stuff into your basket. You have clicked to buy domain? Be sure spam services added into your checkout basket.
Also, they recently sent me email that I have to revalidate my account for no reason. I typed my account name and password. Did not work. May be I forgot. Tried to restore password several times, did change password. But login does not accept password which I have copied and pasted from notepad.