EnglishBob opened this issue on Aug 14, 2012 · 38 posts
monkeycloud posted Tue, 14 August 2012 at 7:34 AM
I think, with the growth of Web 2.0, personal websites are probably on the way out... to a great extent.
ISP's don't tend to give out free space as part of connectivity packages, as far as I know, like they used to... but that's okay, I guess... there's Google Sites...
...and most folk on the web are seemingly all about Tumblr or Facebook Pages or Pinterest or YouTube... or whatever the next latest, coolest new social web start up is... and then everything else is just a load of Wordpress, Blogger, etc, blogs about the latest things on Tumblr or Facebook or Youtube 
I'm pretty sure there's a big proportion of web users now who don't venture much past Facebook.
Not everyone is keen to spend around £70 per annum on unlimited bandwidth (or less if you can live with bandwidth caps) with full php and .htaccess customisation options, etc, largely for their own amusement, like what I do
Just so I can play around with developing things like this:
...to what end, I don't rightly know yet...or host higher resolution image galleries etc.
But, I figure, I spend more on playing the National Lottery... and once that pays off... well, I won't give a monkeys even more... :biggrin:
Actually... I think it's probably pretty important, for the health of the internet, that the likes of us continue to host our own sites...