At least own your domain name and be able to easily move your website content to whereever you want. I think for most people it's cheaper and more convenient to use a hosting service, and that's fine... as long as you can change hosting services.
I've had my personal site ( https://dwheeler.com ) since 1999. As noted in https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html my site has been hosted on 4 different systems, and I'm sure that I will move again at some point. Users won't notice - or care - because I can easily move to some other service.
Despite there being a couple ways to spell my first name and literally dozens of ways to spell my last name, I share the same name as a rock star of similar age as myself down to the letter.
While I do understand I didn't necessarily need a ".com" TLD URL and that I had other TLD options, it was the first availability I checked for obvious reasons; this is how I discovered my semi-famed name-double. I eventually went with a ".net" TLD URL of my name and it's turned out alright so far -- and it makes perfect sense to me that my alternate actually should have the ".com" version instead of myself. I'm content, likely even happy, with how things turned out.
Serious question: How? Aside from .onion[0], all TLDs I know of only allow you to rent a domain name, and will take it away if you don't keep paying their protection racket year-on-year. I would be happy to pay >1000$ to purchase a (human-readable, second-level, etc) domain, if I could actually find where to do so.
0: which is less "own" and more "conjure out of the platonic ether something that no one else is capable of using".
try out freedns.afraid.org
there is a small fee for a premium private account, or you can ride on supermans cape for free and make a secondary domain on those who choose to make thier domain public.
Yes, but that doesn't solve any of the problems that a1369209993 mentioned. Those subdomains can be taken away from you at any time. You have no legal ownership of them.
Yes. I've had run my own site since 2000 [link redacted] moving it around multiple times. The only thing I've really changed is moving to a static site so there's one less thing to export or import(database).
Having my own website I've worked on keeping it speedy and not reliant on any javascript.
That is really impressive. I purchased my first domain around that year. But, I failed to keep it up to date. I have moved 4 times to different domains. And, it has been the last one that I have updated for the past 5 years or so. The rest are lost.
I really like your "Slashdotted" section. It brings back a lot of memories.
I've had my personal site ( https://dwheeler.com ) since 1999. As noted in https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html my site has been hosted on 4 different systems, and I'm sure that I will move again at some point. Users won't notice - or care - because I can easily move to some other service.