imroot.com

The year was 1999, I was a know-it-all college kid who started a dialup ISP business. Along with that came the infrastructure necessary to host websites. Immediately on the heals of that came requests from friends and family to host their websites for little or no money. One of these was Ron Davis. Ron is what I call a domain-name collector, and over the years I obliged his addiction by hosting several of his domains. Of course I also did this for myself, imroot.com has also enjoyed a free ride for many years.

Now the year is 2008 and I am starting to realize how much I don’t know. We now have cable modems and DSL, and very few people use dialup anymroe. So recently the company decided it was finally time to terminate that side of our business to focus on Safe Eyes and EtherShield. However, I would have to find a new place to host my website.

That is when Ron stepped up and offered me space on a server he is operating, just because he is a nice guy (I think that is why anyway). Not only did he host it for me, he went as far as to move my entire wordpress database over to his server. I didn’t have to lift a finger. Thanks again man!

The only thing left to do was find a new mail host because Ron doesn’t have a mail server. We briefly contemplated putting one together to host our own stuff on, but after I looked into Google apps, I decided it wasn’t worth it. In a few minutes you can set it up, get 6GB of mail storage space per account and IMAP and web (same as gmail) access. Then just point your MX record at them, and the rest is magic.

I have to say, I am very happy with this new setup which actually does feel like an “upgrade” from my previous setup.

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