My site (and my e-mail) was down for a couple of days. It caused me to think about a few things.

First of all, it made me really think about why I like having my own domian. When it was gone, I honestly felt disconnected. I had my net connection, and every other thing, but my site and my main e-mail was gone... and it was MINE! It sounds silly, but that was how a felt.

Besides that odd feeling, there are some very practical reasons why having one's own domain is a good thing. You have e-mail that you control with whatever name you want ( I can have up to 30 accounts based on '@maximumword.com', and for very little more I could have unlimited ones) along with access to all those accounts if I wish (great for families that have kids, isn't it?). And then there is the server space... not only do I have a site that I can say whatever I want to the world, but I can also store things that I can access anywhere in the world that I have net access.

I may just write up an article about it. I'll let you know if I do.

The other thing is the problem. My site was there, my server was working.. nothing really was broken! Then why couldn't you get to it? It is what is called a name server problem. You see, the whole internet is actually addressed with numbers. Yes, like phone numbers. So what happened was that my information got changed... so the information in the name server, the server that looks at the the URL that you type in the address bar of your browser and points it to the actual site, had bad information.

I could still get to it, but I would have to type in the actual number address. A real pain... think if you had to use longitude and laditude addresses instead of street addresses to find anybody!