What's this site about?
I bought the domain, created all these sites, and spent all this time and money; why?
I wanted an online presence that I could control. Instead of a Blogger account for my blog, and any Google results for my name going to VT Computer Science, I wanted to host some content that I could put my name next to. After Fastmail.FM died on me for nearly a week, I needed someone to host my emails. I needed space and bandwidth to host increasingly large Subversion repositories (something better than the Pentium III machine in my parent's basement on a cable modem). I needed a place to backup files nightly via rsync.
I wanted subdomains, I wanted storage, I wanted bandwidth. I've got plenty of each of those now.
I got the opportunity to learn about DNS propagation, subdomains, catch-all email addressing, and things you only encounter if you're hosting your own site. I'd done server-side web programming at work, and now had a sandbox to play in. URL rewriting with .htaccess was been a blast: you know you did something wrong when the site goes "500: Internal Server Error: Your Rewrite Skills are Weak" on you.
And, I'll admit it, I wanted a better first result for Google results for searches for Christopher Bowns.
We're all a little vain like that.
What? You wanted information about me? Oh, why didn't you say so?