Remembering where my website was hosted
A quick and fun one to see what changed in 20+ years of hosting my domain
My domain
I bought the ncartron.org domain in November 2002 (so more than 20 years ago, time flies!), and even though I didn't have a website for 20 years, I used various providers for my email and web hosting.
History
I didn't write down all the changes I did, so most of the below will be off the top of my head :)
I checked on Netcraft to be sure (see screenshot below).
- 2003: First hosting, while still a student at EPITECH
- OS: FreeBSD
- ISP: Club Internet (bought by SFR since then)
- Location: Server at home
- 2004-2005:
- OS: FreeBSD
- ISP: Nerim (bought by Keyyo since then)
- Location: Server at home
- Fun fact: I had a 1 MBps ADSL line at home, with a /29 IPv4 block
- 2006-2008:
- OS: Linux (I forgot which flavor, probably Debian)
- ISP: Ikoula
- Location: Datacenter in Reims, France
- 2009-2015:
- I didn't run a website for ncartron.org during that time
- Since 2016:
- OS: FreeBSD
- ISP: Hivane Network
Wrap Up
Fun article to write - I didn't spend too much time on finding out the "holes", but it's true that in 20 years, many things happened, should it be studies, jobs, moving flats, etc.
For web hosting, I mainly stuck to FreeBSD/Apache, whereas for email and DNS, my experiences got a lot wider - you'll see that in upcoming articles!