Cortina Networks was the old trading name of my business, which is no longer trading. Since 2007 I have been working for a salary – getting industry experience. Weekends are now taken up with spending time with my young son.
I am no longer an agent for any ISP. I tell people to avoid both Telstra and Optus for broadband if possible. If you have TPG ADSL2+ available then it is a good deal, especially if you are a little technical. If you have Internode “Extreme” or “Easy” available then that is a good deal too. WestNet still provides good service, even after being assimilated into iiNet!
I no longer sell hosting either. I had a few customers leave (and fair enough: I didn’t have enough time to cater for them anyway) which left me with negative profit each month, so I farmed off all remaining customers to other hosting companies and moved my own websites to Jumba, which is several orders of magnitude cheaper than my previous hosting costs. Budget shared hosting is fine for this small blog and the small(ish) amount of email I get.
I still do lots of server administration and web development using PHP and the usual round of HTML, CSS, JS (including jQuery), plus lately some projects involving iPhones and iPads. I also do some development in Flex (Flash Builder). I need to get my finger out and create my own WordPress theme!