12/01/2005, about 3 o'clock in the morning....

Got way too bored and the extra consumption of coffee meant I couldn't get to sleep for another night. And since there's nothing on TV after about 1am, hell, what's a bored fellow got to do with his time? The answer was (as it happens nowadays in the internet era :P) one click away: register a domain name with Telivo! :D

Would you believe though that most of the domain names involving either my first name or surname are taken???? D'oh! So I went for the plain, boring options and registered liviutudor.com! All in all I hope that was about £20 well spent...

14/01/2005

So, I've got a domain. And I've got some rubbish broadband (can't name the company, but it was a standard 512K/256K link and no fixed IP). And obviously I've got a PC. And spare time... But no money that I want to spend on hosting :D Well, what the heck, I'll host the "site" on my PC!

Rather than running a whole suite of DNS/etc/etc/etc. stuff and overload my PC I went at the time for the cheap option of using dynip.com. So 2 days after the domain name registration I had my website registered and "hosted" on my PC. Grand!

The big problem was the content though -- as usual :-) For about a month my "site" consisted of Apache Tomcat's standard welcome page. After that it changed (a lot! :D) and had a very unreadable (due to excessive CSS/fonts/colors) version of my CV...

And that was it! :-) I've got dragged into other things and didn't get a chance to do anything about it, putting it on the backburner, on the basis that the domain was registered for 2 years (and so was the DynIP subscription) which gave me a lot of time to "do something about it" -- yeah, right! :-)

01/06/2005

Finally changed jobs, girlfriends, dogs and the lot :-) and moving to London...

Since BT won't install the line for a while and the ADSL will follow that I've cancelled the DynIP service. That was a waste of money, as they held the fee for one year of service -- d'oh!

And since I had the chance to get a different ADSL provider I shopped for a while and finally found Zen which offers a neat 1 Meg/8 fixed IP addresses home office package. So there you go: called BT and arrange for the line to be installed and then set up my ADSL service with Zen. (Nevermind the fact that I still had just 1 -- ONE! -- PC at the time :-) ).

Pretty soon after moving it was all up and running -- yahoooooo!