My GoDaddy site came up for renewal, and unlike other times, I didn’t just automatically renew my domain name. I paused, like really paused to think if I wanted to keep on with Trisected.com or not.
There’s a ton of reasons why I don’t need a domain name. For one, who really comes here? My visiting numbers have been so low for so long. But recently I saw a bunch of people visiting, and honestly I have no clue if its real or not.
But it’s a whole slew of things to manage if there are indeed a lot of page views. I’ve got to change my bandwidth with my server hosting, I’ve got to make sure I don’t have more spam attacks and upgrade my security. It’s literally an increase of things to risk assess, and I don’t know if I want to spend time doing that in the years to come.
Another thing is the availability of other platforms. Like running a private instagram account is more cautious. A select few can see what I’m thinking, comment and interact. It’s a smaller circle with a lesser chance of people taking everything I say out of context.
I could also run a telegram channel, where I could broadcast what I want to say, especially if that’s key for me. I do want to talk about what I want to talk about.
All these other platforms are free, unlike having to own a website and domain name and all that. It’s a continual cost I will have to keep paying as long as I want to own this space on the internet.
But I decided to stick with the site because of the space it gives me. It took me awhile to even own trisected.com, maybe 5-6 years without having it. And one day it opened up and I bought it immediately. I placed an auto-renewal for as long as I could then, and I think it was 5 years. If I recall correctly, I did another 5 years, but I definitely had my website before 2016 (if the 10 years total of ownership).
But the space — a blog, and a website. I kinda own this space of the web. It’s fun. I can do whatever I want here, and whatever it says is what I choose for it to say. Like to write freely about things like this, without anyone watching over me to say it shouldn’t be published. I decide what’s good enough to be published.
I’m also not based on an algorithm for someone to see my things. As long as someone looks for trisected.com, they’ll see my latest post and then get to read what I was most recently thinking about. That’s fun, and I like that it’s not an algorithm.
I want a space somewhere, without ads, and I can just be here. Simple. If anyone wants to look for me, they can find my thoughts here, and I’m happy to pay the price to be here as long as I can. In Singapore I have so many memories of places that have disappeared, just because of a lack of audience and traffic. But here, I write just for me actually. And for the few who had followed me from however long ago, I hope to just still exist here.
But man, the price of owning a piece of the internet is really going up a bit. Like my insurance policies lol.
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