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As you can hopefully see, I got a new domain set up for my Linode virtual server, so I can show off all the awesome stuff I've been working on. Not having to use my laptop as a Subversion server anymore is nice, too.

It was a lot more difficult than I expected, mostly due to my first attempt to buy a domain name through 1and1 (since I heard they were cheap, and so am I). Unfortunately, it looks like 1and1 doesn't allow wildcard subdomains, which is kind of a killer for me. I like being able to host each application on its own subdomain, so I'm not doing crazy path rewrites in my Rails apps. I also wasn't a huge fan of their domain management dashboard, it seemed more geared toward managing shared hosting than managing domains pointing to off-site locatons.

I figured I'd try someone else, and went with GoDaddy for the domain you see above. This worked much better, and I got it set up within about 12 hours (would have been less, but I accidentally got rid of the default A record and had to fix that. Unfortunately, the other domains I bought won't be transferred to GoDaddy until the waiting period is over, but other than that, I'm really happy with the way everything's set up.

Next steps: Installing Trac, and deploying an application. This is so much better than shared hosting it's not even funny.