So, I run a number of domain names – all variously themed around jtiong.* where * could be dev, blog, network, food, media, games, etc.

A good variety of gTLDs just for vanity’s sake really.

Here’s essentially the full list:

• .blog
• .dev
• .food
• .games
• .media
• .network

Sure it seems like no big deal, but when you think about it – each domain renews annually for about $30-$50 per year each. That’s right – I’m spending about $250 per YEAR on just domain names.

And across them all there’s probably about 20 to 30 subdomains for various apps, services and sites. When really, all I need is one domain name and I can just do an infinitely long nest of subdomain names as needed.

So, it’s not really a huge consequential cost in the grand scheme of things – but I’ll consolidate everything into the single jtiong.com domain (that you’re on right now). I suppose over the years (I’ve now had this blog running almost a decade) – it’d add up to an ever growing cost to keep all those domain names registered.

Saves a whole lot of messing around with homelab stuff too 🤣