Spurred on by the matter of the disappearing VPS, I decided to try and go through all the things I have hosted somewhere online. It turns out that over time you can accumulate a lot of unnecessary cruft in the online world the same as you can in the real one.
I decided to start by reversing my age old practice of having registered various domain names with whoever the cheapest registrar was at the time. It turns out that what is saved on the cost of a domain itself is nowhere near enough to offset having manage multiple providers all of whom have different logins, portals, etc. It also made it different to do things like harmonise renewals to the same year which I wanted to do so I would receive fewer renewal e-mails.
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