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I've decided to renew my .Mac subscription for at least another year after weighing my options and reading articles such as The Mac Observer's .Mac: Extend Or End Your Subscription?. So why have I decided .Mac is valuable enough to spend the hundred bucks to renew it? Well, the answer is simple. When I purchased .Mac last year, I thought I would use it for about six months or so as I transitioned to a new web host and a new email address. I'd already been using .Mac for at least a year--when it was free and called iTools--and my website had been hosted there for several months. I wanted to keep the site hosted there for awhile longer because Google search results for Internet radio broadcasts were pointing to it, and if I switched over to a new host it would probably take several more months for Google's search bots to find my new site and readjust their listings. Which means that if I didn't subscribe to .Mac, VoyagerRadio would cease to exist for several months--at least, according to Google--since the search results would point to a nonexistent address. I didn't want this to happen, so I figured I'd go and spend the money on .Mac, and once I had a new site up and running elsewhere, I would have visitors to my .Mac site automatically redirected to the new location.
Confused? Don't worry, you don't need to have this all figured out. The point is, I was using the .Mac services and I wanted to use them for at least a little while longer. But I had no idea I'd be using them for so long. A year later, I'm still using .Mac to host my website--I had a bad year financially, and never could afford to invest in establishing a new site--and now it looks like I'm in the same position I was in last year. In other words, pay up or cease to exist. And since I couldn't afford to pay fifty dollars to host my website elsewhere three months ago, having to now subscribe to .Mac for one hundred bucks is a high price to pay, indeed. My financial situation hasn't improved much, if at all. So the question is, as always, to be or not to be? Well, it was an easy decision, even if I have to sell my body to pay for it. I've chosen to be, and at least I'll get a copy of The Sims to boot--part of the list of freebies Apple is offering as enticement to subscribers. Maybe next year I'll upgrade to a real web host. And how about you? Are you trying to make the decision whether to continue subscribing to .Mac or not? Let me know how you're justifying your purchase, whether it's because of your addiction to the nifty Backup utility or some other cool .Mac stuff--or, tell me why you think .Mac is another rotten Apple.
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