Franklin Drive

Welcome to Franklin Drive!

At this point, this is primarily a data store and testbed.

About the Site Name

Franklin Drive has several meanings to me:

Motivation

My initial reason for creating this site was to get more online disk space. I had been filling up txe.swa.com with Tripecac mp3s, and wanted a separate server for storing mp3s, photos, and possibly videos. I also wanted a server for trying out some mysql/php projects.

In the past couple years, the need for franklindrive.com has disappeared. Tripalot.com now hosts my mp3s, flickr hosts my photos, and I still haven't digitized my videos. There's enough room on tripalot.com for videos when the time comes. As for playing around with php and mysql, well, tripalot.com lets me do that too. So, franklindrive.com continues to be unused. It just sits here collecting dust at a rate of over $100 per year.

So how am I gonna use franklindrive.com? Some possibilities:

Hmm...

Okay, see you next year!

Plans

  1. Test, configure, learn. Get PHP/MySQL working. Get mail working.
  2. Put some photo albums online. I need to decide whether to put the html files on txe.swa.com or franklindrive.com.
  3. Create a backup area for automatic backups of small files.
  4. Decide whether to use franklindrive.com primarily for file storage or as a full-time website.