Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Google apps For Your Domain + Blogger
Aside from the obviously Microsoft-inspired name, Google Apps For Your Domain is a pretty impressive piece of software. You give Google your $10.00 for a year's worth of owning your domain, and everything else just sort-of falls into place - email, calendar, web hosting, and the blog. Of note, is how fucking fast they manage to propagate my freshly purchased domain through to the root servers. I literally clicked "buy" and the next minute www.BogdanGheorghe.com resolved.
What's not so impressive - is how disconnected the services are amongst themselves. For instance, my e-mail address @bogdangheorghe.com doesn't actually log me into any of the google services... I still need a gmail.com account to be able to log into THIS blogger account. I also can't link my gmail account with my non-gmail account.
Another thing is how the templates for Blogger are different from the templates for GooglePages. It took me hours of hacking HTML/CSS/JavaScript to get my site to look like my blog
Wow, it's only been a couple of years since I used to own/host/manage like 10 domains and host my own e-mail, web server, etc. Things are way easier now. When the time comes to start a business, you better believe I won't get into the hosting business if I can help it. And with really simple and cheap services like this and Amazon's EC2+S3, I probably won't.
I should get to work. More on that later.
PS.- I love how Google has become so good at shipping random little shit-apps that people have come to expect things like live flight information from them. I just sort-of assumed this existed like a year ago (and tried it, and... it didn't, and I was disappointed).
What's not so impressive - is how disconnected the services are amongst themselves. For instance, my e-mail address @bogdangheorghe.com doesn't actually log me into any of the google services... I still need a gmail.com account to be able to log into THIS blogger account. I also can't link my gmail account with my non-gmail account.
Another thing is how the templates for Blogger are different from the templates for GooglePages. It took me hours of hacking HTML/CSS/JavaScript to get my site to look like my blog
Wow, it's only been a couple of years since I used to own/host/manage like 10 domains and host my own e-mail, web server, etc. Things are way easier now. When the time comes to start a business, you better believe I won't get into the hosting business if I can help it. And with really simple and cheap services like this and Amazon's EC2+S3, I probably won't.
I should get to work. More on that later.
PS.- I love how Google has become so good at shipping random little shit-apps that people have come to expect things like live flight information from them. I just sort-of assumed this existed like a year ago (and tried it, and... it didn't, and I was disappointed).
