2011-06-22 Today I finally did it: I ordered a vserver. In February 2003 everything started with a small (40MB) webspace at german-webspace.de. After one year, in January 2005, I switched to all-inkl.com, where I had a bit more of everything. This time it lasted twice as long. In November 2006, I switched again, this time to hosteurope.de. Again I received a bit more of everything, and this time especially in quality. Also I had re- gistered a third domain. IIRC I started with 500MB, which doubled two times, since then. In winter 2009/2010 I redesigned my (personal) website and moved it over to some server, for which a friend had offered an account to me. But this wasn't a real solution. I still felt limited, be it only that I am invited to a system that is not my own. It doesn't matter that I'm root on the machine (a huge prove of trust!). Besides, I have and always had a strong need to be in- dependent. However, now I have the server. Maintaining a server surely shouldn't be taken lightly. This I know. I thought long about it. After maintaining my home server for several years and having improved my knowledge, I feel prepared and able now. Now follows moving everything from my webspace, from the friend's server and some stuff from my home server. This will involve some recoding because I don't want to install apache but a small web- server, and I like to drop the databases completely. Tomorrow is holiday, on Friday I don't have to go to university, and then's the weekend, thus a lot of time to get things working. Let's get it on! :-) http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke