as of right now, it appears that justinsomnia.org is resolving to the IP address of my cable modem which is then forwarded to my webserver. i decided to buy the domain from godaddy ($8.95/year) and point the record to zoneedit’s free-ish nameservers. took about 24 hours to become operational. starting to think i might want to shell out another $9/year to “hide” the plethora of personal information available via whois.

i haven’t set up the dynamic dns “client” yet. i’m kind of wishing my cable modem+router+wireless access point (which i thought was the epitome of gadgetry consolidation) had some of the neat advanced features of linksys’s standalone wireless router (like built-in ddns)–but it doesn’t

i’m also kind of wishing roadrunner had an option for me to get a static IP address. if i was an ISP, i’d be techie friendly and offer an a la carte menu of individually priced options like:

• IMAP/POP email accounts (branded gmail accounts?)
• static IP(s)
• personal webspace with access to PHP, MySQL
• domain name registration and nameservers
• synchronous data transfer

i wonder though how much of the $41.95 i pay roadrunner each month actually goes to time warner cable? i’m assuming most of it, because earthlink and max.inter.net don’t have any price advantage. maybe i should write an ISP business plan.

as far as what i’m going to do with the server… i’m thinking about moving my blog off unc (now that i can’t claim first amendment academic rights or anything) and onto justinsomnia.org. i’d also like to do the same with my photo gallery. of course this might be a crappy idea especially if my uptime is marginally less than 99.999%. we’ll see.