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I am constantly amazed by the number of people who misspell definitely as definately.  I used to do it too, until I saw someone who’d written it with an I instead of an A, and I looked it up because I thought they’d spelled it wrong.  But it’s seriously an epidemic; almost everyone I’ve ever seen type that word has typed it with an A.  I wonder where we all got it from.

I’m moving my site to a new webhost (with 3 gigs of space and root access to the linux box that’ll host it (!!)), and as a result, my site may be intermittently available, not available at all, or available in two different versions, over the next week or so.  Such is the nature of DNS.

I’m also almost done writing a guide that shows you how to quickly set up your own webserver on your own computer to host photos (or whatever else you want), using the scripts that I’ve written over the past 2 years to power sites like my mom’s and my test site.  I’m pretty excited about this.  With a broadband internet connection, anyone can run their own website for free on their own system, so I’m hoping to help a few (or maybe a lot of) people do just that.  And since lots of people have digital cameras nowadays, I think it’d be really neat for lots of people to be able to easily share their photos, without having to upload them anywhere.  Plus, come on, my photo scripts are awesome... there’s a slideshow mode, and users can change to a framed mode if they like that better, and visitors can post comments on individual photos, and can post their own photos with their comments if you choose to enable that...

Posted by Anthony on 6 replies

Comments:

01. Oct 14, 2003 at 10:16am by nAtE:

Ye ha!  Send in the scripts!

02. Oct 14, 2003 at 04:49pm by The Overlord:

come on nathan, not like you could get them to work; frontpage wouldn’t be happy about that

03. Oct 14, 2003 at 05:16pm by antnies's mom:

daphnitly !

04. Oct 14, 2003 at 06:28pm by nAtE:

oh you people are so negative.  I’ve got my guy up and running.

05. Sep 5, 2005 at 03:48am by jim:

Interested in a copy of your guide on seting up a websever at home (using a dynamic IP address).
Thanks, Jim

06. Sep 5, 2005 at 02:43pm by Anthony:

Hi Jim.  My guide eventually grew too complex and time-consuming to maintain as I added more and more features to my website system.  (In fact, even the initial version of the guide was many pages long.)  Installing and configuring a server and then designing and setting up a website requires a lot of specialized knowledge across different disciplines -- design, programming, and system administration, mainly -- to the point that it just wasn’t practical to maintain such a guide as I originally set out to.  I eventually turned my system into a company, Encodable Industries, where I install such websites for people, either on their home systems or on their hosted website accounts.  This works much better and takes far, far less time than trying to walk people through the process of doing it themselves.

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