This is the way - 99% of my stuff is Caddy-proxied through subdomains to a single Debian VPS and works great even when deluged with the occasional HN-levels of traffic.
If you get one good domain, subdomains work really well.
It worked for yahoo, it works for me. I have a couple more domains for things where it makes sense, but [descriptive word].[my usual domain] works for most things and [descriptive word].[my old domain] works as a test area when I think my 0 users might be inconvenienced if I test in production.
The downside of this approach is if one of the side-projects takes off, it’s a real pain to disentangle it from the others (for example, if you want to sell it). I spent several hours (and tons of anxiety) migrating a project to its own domain all to save less than $100 in domain registration fees overall. Just bite the bullet and keep your projects clean from the get go.
Yeah, I don't think I really need to worry about that happening. :)
Anyway, if you buy my whatever project, I'll NS or CNAME the subdomain to wherever you want, plus forward email for whatever@thedomain to wherever you want. I recommend you buy a cool domain and do a redirect.
First 10 years included in the purchase price. Each additional year costs $1000/year inflation adjusted. 15 changes per year, $100/change after that. Obligation to follow domain ownership, purchaser has right of first refusal on selling the whole domain or to claim it before it's let expire. I'm willing to use a high value registrar for the domain to help insure continuity, if requested, but the costs + margin will be borne by the purchaser.
Worst case, pay me more, give me mail forwarding for my important email addresses and I'll move the rest of my junk so you can have my whole domain. :P
I have a problem with buying domains that just seem fun or cool to me. For example, I bought `sysalt.com` -- why? because it was registered in 1992 and that seemed cool to me.
What have I done with it? Nothing. What do I plan to do with it? Nothing yet either! Do I still want to get a domain that was registered earlier than 1992 just because it's cool? You know it!
Not an ad or promotion, I'm just also addicted to buying cool domains and I remember seeing this up for sale: DomainEmpire.com is currently trying to sell sesqui.net, registered in 1987, for $33,000. I think they have others that are cheaper, but you'll have to scrape WHOIS data for each domain to find their creation dates.
I was actually eyeing off a few pre-1990 domains, including sesqui.net, earlier this evening -- I generally use the service "ExpiredDomains.net" for searching and sorting by "Whois Birth Year" to find the old ones. Despite it's name, it's actually incredibly useful just to search across various domain marketplaces regardless of if they're expiring or not.
(Un)fortunately most of the super cool ones are way outside of what I budget for my "cool things to have (that don't take up any physical space)" spend.
Get a single domain and use subdomains till one of your projects pop off. Or use the cloudflare worker/vercel domain that is by-default provided when you deploy apps on those platforms
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadI should heed my own advice, I've been buying up the TLDs for mine
It worked for yahoo, it works for me. I have a couple more domains for things where it makes sense, but [descriptive word].[my usual domain] works for most things and [descriptive word].[my old domain] works as a test area when I think my 0 users might be inconvenienced if I test in production.
Anyway, if you buy my whatever project, I'll NS or CNAME the subdomain to wherever you want, plus forward email for whatever@thedomain to wherever you want. I recommend you buy a cool domain and do a redirect.
First 10 years included in the purchase price. Each additional year costs $1000/year inflation adjusted. 15 changes per year, $100/change after that. Obligation to follow domain ownership, purchaser has right of first refusal on selling the whole domain or to claim it before it's let expire. I'm willing to use a high value registrar for the domain to help insure continuity, if requested, but the costs + margin will be borne by the purchaser.
Worst case, pay me more, give me mail forwarding for my important email addresses and I'll move the rest of my junk so you can have my whole domain. :P
What have I done with it? Nothing. What do I plan to do with it? Nothing yet either! Do I still want to get a domain that was registered earlier than 1992 just because it's cool? You know it!
(Un)fortunately most of the super cool ones are way outside of what I budget for my "cool things to have (that don't take up any physical space)" spend.