Good, Cheap...But Mainly Fast
Category: Internet...
Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 06:25 PM [GMT-6]

Say what you will about the old interweb, some folks have figured out ways to iron out the kinks in some of the overhead items, and what once took hours and even days now can take literally only minutes.

I think I set some kind of record this afternoon for going from initial inquiry (around 1:30 p.m.) to live website (around 5:45 p.m.), and this includes registering a domain name, acquiring a hosting account, and creating a placeholder home page*.

This is what happens when you have a motivated client and good working ties to service providers. (Oh, and it doesn't hurt if you can hand-code CSS in your sleep. ;-)

I can remember the Bad Old Days (way back in '04) when it sometimes took 48 hours for the DNS transfer to complete. Nowadays, it happens in as little as five minutes.

*If you're still seeing a "coming soon" page from GoDaddy, it means your ISP hasn't refreshed its DNS server. Shame on them. All the cool kids can see the site.