Franklin Drive
Welcome to Franklin Drive!
At this point, this is primarily a data store and testbed.
Local Sites
- test
- For testing web server tools.
External Sites
- tripalot.com
- My main set of sites. Includes music, games, and personal info.
Redirecting Sites
These sites were external at some point, but now redirect to somewhere on tripalot.com:
- txe.swa.com
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A semi-up-to-date mirror of tripalot.com.
This was the original location of all my personal sites.
Its server kept giving me problems, so I switched everything over to tripalot.com,
and now redirect txe.swa.com's urls to tripalot.com.
- My UVa pages
- From grad school (1997-1999). Mostly academic stuff. This current redirects to the same set of pages on tripalot.com.
- tripecac.com
- My own music, hosted on tripalot.com.
- travisemmitt.com
- For my personal info. This currently is the same as tripalot.com.
About the Site Name
Franklin Drive has several meanings to me:
- Ben Franklin had a drive to work on lots of stuff (writing, science, politics).
- This site acts as a remote drive and costs me roughly $100/year; the president on the $100 bill is Ben Franklin.
- I grew up (mostly) on Franklin Drive.
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:
- host for content too "serious" to be associated with tripalot.com (e.g., my parents' sites)
- mirror of tripalot.com (though there is little point, since both are hosted by the same company)
- encrypted online backups (although I already have a million backup points)
- ditch the account, redirect the domain name to tripalot.com (like I've done with my other sites)
- defer any decisions for another year
Hmm...
Okay, see you next year!
Plans
- Test, configure, learn. Get PHP/MySQL working. Get mail working.
- Put some photo albums online. I need to decide whether to put the html files on txe.swa.com or franklindrive.com.
- Create a backup area for automatic backups of small files.
- Decide whether to use franklindrive.com primarily for file storage or as a full-time website.