NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control.
– John Robb
I hereby christen the above quotation Robb’s Law or Robb’s Law of Weblog Hosting in full. I suppose it could be broadeneed to web publishing in general. I certainly think owning your own domains and when possible running your own servers is the ideal scenario for any web publisher.
Oh, and an update to my news aggregrator subscriptions: I’m adding John Robb’s Weblog (and removing the subscription to his old address), as well as the MindPlex weblog and the Author’s News blog for John’s Weblog Network concept. (If the posts are redundant or drop off at one of the ancillary addresses, I may unsubscribe later.)
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John Robb’s new Location
I’m not what you would call one of John Robb’s biggest fans. However, when a person’s weblog is summarily yanked, as if to make this person vanish from the aether, then I’ll do everything in my power to help him resurface. John Robb, in his new weblog …
Wouldn’t a more sensible policy be to just be sure of the terms on which your weblog’s hosted? I mean, there’s hundreds of thousands of sites on blogspot that are run by people who don’t own Google, but that doesn’t mean they’re in any danger, assuming Google’s a going concern, right? I’d trust Google’s server farm over some random fly-by-night hosting company.
Robb’s Law
As more blogs build reputations and traffic, blog operators will yearn for greater control over their sites and their substantial investment of time and talent.
Just to reinforce xian’s comment. Controlling your own dns is a service that most large web hosts/blog hosts should offer. We do at Tripod. It is a convenient (paid) feature called domain forwarding, you get the domain name and point it to wherever you want…when you want.
J Robb’s Law
“Robb’s Law: NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control.”
Tee Hee.
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Robb’s Law
From Radio Free Blogistan: Robb’s Law, IMHO a very important principle for webloggers everywhere: Robb’s Law NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control. – John Robb I hereby christen the above quotation Robb’s L…
Robb’s Law of Weblog Hosting
Never (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control. – John Robb I linked to…
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Hey, Jeff, do I get paid for the clickthrough to your link?
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Robb’s Law – NEVER (under any circumstances) publish a weblog to a domain that you don’t control.
(SOURCE: Radio Free Blogistan: Robb’s Law )- This is why I run my own webserver for rolandtanglao.com
John Robb’s new Location
I’m not what you would call one of John Robb’s biggest fans. However, when a person’s weblog is summarily yanked, as if to make this person vanish from the aether, then I’ll do everything in my power to help him resurface. John Robb, in his new weblog …
Well owning your own domain doesn’t help if the hosting company isn’t reliable. John’s blog is down as is my own. Digital-Crocus seems to have gone dark. Not sure what is up. They were having problems with their co-location in England and moved to Managed.com in San Jose. Managed.com is alive and kicking but the name servers for digital-crocus are not working. This is the second problem this month. They had to restore from a two week old backup a week ago. No big deal for Radio bloggers but it was a PITA for movable type blogs (especially after I had modified my templates extensively). Now an unexplained outage going on 24 hours. Manage.com is not talking to me. All the contacts I have for digital-crocus (email) are based on their own mail server which isn’t up. Not a happy camper.
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MT Licensing vs Weblogs.com Shutdown
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The first wave of the Internet was about e-services (commerce, news, portals) and numerous providers rushed to fill the demand. Not everyone made it, but those that did, manged to create successful businesses and amassed milions of users – the…
User Centric Web – Defined
The first wave of the Internet was about e-services – commerce, news, portals. I believe the second wave, which is already upon us, will be about i-services: Individual Content Publishing. Blogging is a perfect example of one such service that…
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The first wave of the Internet was about e-services – commerce, news, portals. I believe the second wave, which is already upon us, will be about i-services: Individual Content Publishing. Blogging is a perfect example of one such service that…