I realized recently that I have data in many places, not under my direct control. I decided to change this in 2010 and take control of my data.
last year I got business class dsl from AT&T. it’s 6 Mbps down and 768k up. it comes with 7 static ip addresses. I use 99.59.102.17 to host my production traffic. this goes to a KVM virtual machine running a lamp stack. I pay 70.00 a month for the service, and whatever portion of the power bill the system, switch, router and dsl modem consume. I will be putting a kill a watt in place to figure out production and development gear load.
on this setup I host numerous subdomains and services
www
photos
blog
mblog
pastebin
URL
git
docs
I also host my own email. it’s on another dedicated server elsewhere. I make very heavy use of email, especially with rss2email.
all of these applications are free software. installation is very straightforward.
these allow me to avoid usage of numerous cloud based applications that have numerous drawbacks in terms of data security.
I am still on linkedin as that’s inherently social and there is a lot of benefit to it. I still want to build a very comphrenhsive employment profile on my own site, and link it and linkedin.
I haven’t found a good dopplr like site. it’s a very cool travel mash up journal. I think I will use my blog for that.
that’s about it. I’m not on facebook or myspace or any other social networking sites. I do interact with people on Twitter via my micro blog, as it has a bridge to Twitter.