So last week I built a website. Not for a business but for an individual. She wanted a secure place to host her personal phtos, family photos and documents, where she could control who saw what. Her domain is hers, not some company name slash her name, like facebook.com/gumby or instagram.com/pokey, but HERname.com As long as she keeps paying the $15/year to keep it registered to her, it’s never going anywhere. It’s not going out of business, it’s never filing for bankruptcy. Oh and HEY… it’s never selling her data to advertisers NOR giving it to your trusty old govt. Nope. It’s hers, and the data within is hers. 

Now let’s just say I, as her host, get fed up with it all and give up the web biz and go live on some island without *hee* internet connec…. *hee hee*… connection… *BWAHHAHAHA*…

No really. For whatever reason, let’s say I’m no longer her host. Her data is all backed up and all she has to do is point her domain to a different host and upload the backed-up data and VOILA! Looks like she never left. Her domain stays the same. Her emails stay the same. 

Can someone tell me whyyyyyyyy everyone isn’t doing this???

Why aren’t *you* doing this?