This is my personal public home-page. A place where I spew uncontrollably, but over time this page may evolve into my business homepage. I keep an up to date CV which has lots of hyperlinks, and a Resume which is cut (PHP-auto-generated and then served as a static file) from the CV.
You may have noticed that the URL of this site has the IP address 107.191.96.171. That's because I'm too cheap to re-pay to keep a domain name. Having no domain name does seem to effect my search rankings (on google but not bing) see search links:
update Tue Jan 6 2015 My web site is the number one web site with those search parameters. And I did it without a domain name. Yes! And I did remember to remove all my browser cookies and did not use the above links, which keeps the "referred from" part of the http GET request anonymous. But are they modifying my search results based on my web clients IP address? Crap. I just thought of that. I'll ask a friend from across the country to make that URL request and tell me the results. Okay, I had friend on the west coast verify it, this site is number One!
Update, Oct 18 2015, dropped to 4th place on bing, but still number one on google, but that maybe tainted by cookies and/or my IP address.
I envision the web as an interconnected web of freely shared information. I hope that my web pages reflect that idea.
The web server that serves this page costs we less than $15/year. It's a RamNode virtual private server (VPS) OpenVZ server. At the time of this writing (2016 Jan 16) this is the smallest and cheapest VPS they offer, with just 128MB RAM, 12 GigaBytes of disk, and one CPU. This is the cheapest customizable server that I could find that meets my needs. It's more than I need to serve these static web pages. I get full control over all the software programs running (except the kernel) and all files on the server. It is running a stripped down Apache Web Server without PHP. I have noticed that by default the Apache web server is configured for large systems with lots of memory and CPUs, I configured this one to be very small. At this time is just using 6.7 MBytes of memory for programs and is using most of the RAM memory for cache.
$ free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128M 126M 1.7M 0B 0B 119M
-/+ buffers/cache: 6.7M 121M
Swap: 64M 6.7M 57M
Most people don't need such control over their web server. For me control equals fun.
