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Considering dropping my web site
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From
18/03/2019 12:46:06
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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18/03/2019 11:33:42
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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01667343
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>>To All,
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>>Recently I have considered dropping my GLRsoftware.com web site. I have had it for many years, but have done little to maintain it in the recent years. It was a cool thing when I first developed it, but it old (classic ASP), and I rarely do anything to update it. The site is hosted by GoDaddy. Which I like. They also host my Email and FTP. But currently I have offering my GMail email address to friends and clients. GLRsoftware inbox (and spam box) are becoming saturated with email messages I don't even wish to read, yet alone respond. Also with Cloud storage available (MS OneDrive, GoogleDrive, and DropBox), I don't even have to bother with having a FTP client application. Plus I could move many of the download application and tools I offer to GitHub. All of these cover about 90% of the reason I have the web site in the first place. I started it more as a sandbox to learn web development, but became more of a storage area. Besides, having the GLRsoftware.com as part of my email address have giving people that I have an active company, which I don't anymore.
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>>Opinions? Suggestions?
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>I follow your reasoning. Having own website - unless often updated - makes sense for me for OWN cloud storage.

I keep ndragan.com for fun and very rarely use it for storage. Sometimes, temporarily, if all other means of getting a file to customer's server, simply downloading a file from there always works. Almost. But other than updating the content here and there several times a week, I don't do much re updating its looks, or reshaping it to follow any fashions. It does look a bit different than it did 20 years ago, but not much. And I've found that its mostly the content that brings visits, not the fancy amount of white space :).

>I/we use Nextcloud for sharing files/documents - no wish to depend on Dropbox, Amazon or Google servers/infrastructure, even if their response time usualy is better than our setup.

I hate the security of DropBox - whenever I use it to get a file to a customer's server, I get an annoying email which is half accusing the person unknown of hijacking it from somewhere in the world. I could share a link - but that link is always impossible to type, and in about 100% of cases I can't transfer the clipboard so I'd have to transfer it in a text file... which is exactly what can't do and why I'm trying to do it via DropBox. And ah they get to know where I've been. Nice.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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