[Fury]

Over 90% of the space is taken by hosted projects of course. There's a bunch of good servers available at $150-$200 price range.

I've been eyeing on SoftLayer's Opteron servers. I got a small discount offer for their Opteron 170 (2.0GHz dual-core), 2GB RAM, 2x250GB HDD, 2TB/10Mbps bandwidth. They don't have smaller HDD's than 250GB, but thanks to that they can offer 250GB's for the same price as most others offer 80GB's, the difference in price small in the retail market as well. There's no RAID as it would increase price by $40, so the other HDD is a backup HDD where data will be mirrored regularly. With 250GB HDD, hosted projects no longer would have to keep their development files compressed to save space, as this can be inconvenient sometimes. This server should be good enough to keep HLP running many years. The Opteron 170 server would cost with the small discount $194 per month, if we forget the backup HDD the price's down to $174.

Hopefully Sandwich will get a donation page up and running today so that we can start saving for a new server.

[Xelion]

Over 90% of the space is taken by hosted projects of course.

I thought as much

I never heard of SoftLayer but I done a search, all comments so far are positve, customer service via chat is excellent and they certainly seem like a great company. I'll probably switch to them myself once I have enough sites to place on there

Great choice Fury

[pecenipicek]

Over 90% of the space is taken by hosted projects of course. There's a bunch of good servers available at $150-$200 price range.

and most of that by TBP, no? seeming as they're the largest hosted project so far

[vyper]

It's an indictment of the level of interest that still exists in FS2. It's also a reason to try and get the tracker running again.

[Fury]

and most of that by TBP, no? seeming as they're the largest hosted project so far

One and half months ago TBP was taking up 61% of the space taken up by hosted projects. Then it was cleaned up and now is one third of its earlier size. Later WCS ftp's were mirrored on HLP and current WCS is taking up nearly three times as much space as TBP is. WCS staff have promised to clean up their ftp though.

It's also a reason to try and get the tracker running again.

Tracker?

[Xelion]

I think vyper is referring to the TBP torrent tracker that use to be around

[Fury]

I hosted TBP BT Tracker on my own domain and webhosting. It was very popular but in the end I gave up on it because people simply wouldn't keep seeding, I didn't want to keep seeding TBP torrents forever either.

If he referred to the HLP BT Tracker though, it wasn't ever used despite the fact that it was kept around many months and people never really showed any interest to it. Whether HLP BT Tracker will be resurrected depends on future bandwidth restrictions and if there's any interest to use bittorrent to save bandwidth.

[vyper]

Erm, the thing you were made an admin for. The BitTorrent tracker.

Edit: never saw your reply to Xelion

[Fury]

See my post above yours if you missed the HLP BT Tracker part of the post. The post's edited to make it a seperate paragraph.

[Mars]

I wonder, is the actual size of those projects indicative to their relative fan bases? i.e. do the bigger projects have more fans?

[Mefustae]

Uh, i'm getting warnings about double-posting, when I the post is in fact not posted at all. Is this part of the problem we were experiencing before?

[stinger]

sorry to see the site in difficulty  - i might be out of line but i suggest you check out dreamhost's offers - theyre not the fastest but they have a great service with heapsa space and bandwidth -

get well soon 

[Fury]

DreamHost has a bad rep of being unreliable and slow. They've been already checked out and the conclusion is that they are no different from other shared hostings, only grossly overadvertised.

[Kosh]

Too bad someone doesn't build a server just for HLP and we (the users) help pay for it......

[vyper]

Alright who enabled guest posting?

[Prophet]

Good question. As far as I understand, that should have not happened.
Something creepy is going on...

[Mefustae]

I'm scared.

[vyper]

This sort of thing always happens after an upgrade...

[Fury]

Meh, fixed and the post deleted.

[Mobius]

I still have difficulties entering the site.
I have cleared the cokkies and caches,but there's still something wrong,though I've been able to post anyway.