MzSerena’s Garden

Sometimes, I wonder why people think that they need to have managed IT services when a lot of times, it isn’t necessary. For instance, to run a website, you need a couple people who are interested in helping out and keep it updated. I want to, down the road, start a website for the Town of Van Etten, to share historical items and make it accessible to those who came from the area but no longer live here.

I know that it was discussed before, but tabled due to cost. What’s the cost? I pay $60 a year for hosting for my sites. I have a large package, however, the town would not need that. I pay less than $10 per year for my domain. I maintain everything myself. I don’t see why the town couldn’t do similar.

Now, normally I don’t bitch about websites AT ALL but when I wake up in the morning to a “Thank you for your order” from a legitimate site, I go ‘huh?’. That was the case this morning. I was on Parents.com last night looking at baby names with a friend. This morning, I have an ‘order’, login and password for the site in my email.

I did NOT order anything. I did NOT sign up for the site. I did NOTHING of the likes, nor do I use the email address that they have listed for signing up for stuff. They have my name and my shipping address even. How the HELL that happened, I don’t know, unless they phished my cookies for the information.

I am NOT amused. Not even slightly.

I need to draw some new readership, I think. I really have no idea how, outside of submitting to a free web directory and that doesn’t really work all that well. It’s hard. Everyone wants to succeed, but not everyone can. I’m not sure what to do.

I know long posts don’t get read, so I write shorter posts. I don’t post more than a couple times a day at most. I dunno what to do. I .. meh .. just don’t know. I’ll work on it over the weekend, I think. Maybe come up with a strategy.

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