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Re: Club internet domains
I certainly understand your reluctance to have the Cornell servers and personnel
doing more than they already are. And not being able to "do it yourself" make
every change a pain. You (and others interested in this sort of thing) might
want to try out http://www.pronym.com. Their service is free (and worth every
penny, as they say) and I have been using them for several months. The reason I
switched to them is that my last "free provider" went belly up (it's hard to
support a free service model). I don't have any assurance that pronym won't do
the same, but since my sites and email are not critical enough to pay for
hosting, I'm willing to take my chances. I might even donate some money to them
in the future, but I don't want to pay $20/month/domain to get services when I
can get them for free. You could build a testing domain for free (like
aka.pronym.org) and try their services before you switch the aka.org DNS to
their site. If you choose to switch, you will be comepletely in change of where
the subdomains point to and could easily add all the subdomains you want. You
could also set up all the email accounts you want. The service is not perfect,
they don't offer mail lists or outbound SMTP (they do have POP and webmail
though), and their user agreement is in French (who knows what I actually agreed
to when I clicked it).
If you end up switching, keep the Cornell systems in place though in case you
need a backup sometime. You could make "batch" backups every week or so to keep
the changes up to date at Cornell.
These are just ideas, I have no complaints about how things are being run now, I
just like to play with new stuff and then pass the best of that on to others.
Dennis Heltzel
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