On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 11:15 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an > exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my > country is difficult Realising, after the fact, I hadn't mentioned I'm in Australia, during this thread... There's a couple of aspects to wanting local hosting service, apart from the obvious of wanting to deal with locals and no overseas call centres. Google will consider my site is Australian if I have an Australian IP address, or an Australian top-level domain name. And can return my site as an answer for queries that want local answers, instead of discarding it as overseas. I don't have a .au TLD. You can get personal id.au domain names without too many hurdles to jump through, but I don't want one of them (a website in my own name). All the other .au (com.au, net.au, org.au) domain names required an Australian Business Number, or other similar business registration, I don't have one of them, nor want to get one. So having an Australian IP address is the only way to make Google thing my .com address is Australian. Most people around here don't understand the purpose of these various top-level subdomains and think that most sites are either simply .com.au or .com, so bucking that trend works against you. While it's a good thing that our name registration system knuckled down and insisted that .com.au was only used for commercial sites, likewise with .net.au for business, there's asn.au & .org.au for non-profit associations and charitable organisations, etc. Using them for their intended purposes. It's a shame that they didn't have the foresight to have a general-purpose top domain, having .net.au simply for something that's on the net would have been a good idea. Only recently (end of last year) they seem to be opening up .au by itself for uncategorised purposes, but registrars are price gouging it. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.90.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 4 15:21:22 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
