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"Follow your dreams". Without a backup plan, this will statistically doom the vast majority of those who dream of online gaming, being an influencer, or playing professional sports.

Sure there are people who make a living in all 3 areas, but the odds are definitely not in your favor.

Cloudflare.com doesn't charge more than what the top level registrar charges them.

NameSilo.com includes quite a few features (Privacy and email forwarding) that the sleazy registrars try to upsell.

Oddly, Cloudflare is part of the Bandwidth Alliance - a consortium of 19 companies who want to reduce bandwidth costs.

Backblaze, an online storage and backup company, is also a member. They charge $.005/GB/month for S3 compatible storage. And if you map and access a bucket through Cloudflare there is no egress fee.

So it's possible to store and access your files at 1/3 the price of Cloudflare alone by using Cloudflare (plus Backblaze).

The Cult of Busy 4 years ago

When somebody says "Sorry, I can't. I'm busy" I hear "I have something more important to do". May be true, may not.

A friend had an Apple ][+ and an acoustically coupled modem in the early 80s. He had to dial the phone and put the receiver into the cups of the modem. One evening of calling a list of modem numbers for Bulletin Boards and companies (there was no specific law against hacking in 1980), I was hooked.

I saved $2,500 for an Apple //e, printer, and Zoom modem the next summer and it changed my life. Though I had an MA in clinical psychology and was an intern psychologist, through some some roundabout choices I ended up a few years later as one of the first Forensic Computer Examiners at a small federal law enforcement agency. It was the wild west in the late 1990s as I was working as a Special Agent and they offered the job to me as a sworn agent with no official credentials other than the ones I earned within the agency.

Wouldn't have changed a thing. I retired at 51 and am living as an expat.

"It's a kids movie from the 70s about cats in Paris. Oh, and it has the guy from Full House. Let's buy it for the grandkids."

Kyle and Kaylie on the next visit. "We loved The Aristocrats, Grandpa. I have a story. This family walks into a booking agent's office..."