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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on January 05, 2004, 04:24:31 pm
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I'm sick of NW dying because the goddamn 'tards on the shared server connect to the MySQL server thousands and thousands of times and crash the whole goddamn thing.
So I'm thinking of getting a spiffy new dedicated server. While I can cover the costs of it, I'd rather not have to waste all my money, so I'd be leasing chunks out to a ton of people, real cheap to cover some of the cost.
What kinda stuff would you expect for say........$3/month? Bearing in mind the only real limits would be on band-width and disk-space. And that there'd be a Cpanel for every 'member' to set-up FTP's and e-mails as they pleased. And that I'd need to give it to like 60 people to make it worthwhile.
So.....?
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How would you accept payment? LVs?
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Good question. I guess primarily through PayPal.
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....are you gonna fix nw?
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I can't. Gotta wait till HostDime reset the MySQL server. See, it's not just a NW problem. Someone destroyed the entire MySQL system by overloading it with connections.
This is why I'm moving up.
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ah, got ya. cant we ***** to some one?
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We could ***** to HostDime, but there's probably already about 50 people from other sites on the server doing just that.
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fair enough ... can we ***** at sjrike instead?
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Sure. Don't see why not.
Anyway, answer the On-Topic question.
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i get hosting off you anyway ... i dont wanna pay :)
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Damn. Never thought of that.
Fudge.
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Can't argue with three dollars if you have to do it, but PayPal can **** off
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I don't get why everyone has this distrust of PayPal. Me and my pops have done ****-loads of stuff through PayPal and ain't never had no trouble.
Still, I'm open to alternatives..........alternative methods of pa......err......Damn. how can I phrase this?
I am willing to accept ideas for alternate methods of transacting currency.
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GeezerSoft stock?
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Send me a few rolls of it to use as toilet-paper and we might have a deal.
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I think you can print your own, nowadays, can't you?
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btw, NW is alive again
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Paying = bad
:blah:
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Were I actually, you know, maintaining a web page these days, might have a better answer.
But, ah, anything with a connection fast enough to deliver mid-res video at a reasonable rate, and enough webspace for me to put ****loads of it up there and forget about it, because that's precisely the sort of behavior that got me kicked off of my last hosting deal.
Oh, and some form of security. Suppose there's no way to keep, say, you from prying in there as server admin if you so pleased, but since I do run restricted-access stuff time to time I like to keep it bloody restricted, without having to resort to hiding the good stuff in among like 50 similar virused files again. Three bucks, it'd just have to keep the ****heads out. Much more than that, I'm expecting some sort of script that does something horrible to anyone who tries to get clever on parts they ain't supposed to see.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Paying = bad
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$3? Thats not bad. I would if i wasnt hosted at swooh.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Were I actually,................ better answer.
But, ah, anything...............kicked off of my last hosting deal.
Oh, and some form of sec................rts they ain't supposed to see.
The one I'd get has 160Gb of space and 1000Gb of bandwidth. And being a dedicated server (with 5 IP's), I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say it could do streaming media.
Add to that the fact that the people I'd be renting it from allow pornography on the servers......Mwuahaha.
And I've come up with an improved idea: 1p/Mb
So 1Gb would only cost ya £10/month.
I'd set the max FTP's and MySQL's to like 100 default. Then increase the number depending on: Wether I thought you actually had a valid reason for needing that many; And wether you were renting enough space to justify it (I'm not giving out 500 FTP's for 70mb of space).
As for bandwidth....well, that'd probably be free as long as it wasn't getting up into the high 900Gb's every month for the server as a whole.
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Sounds fair.
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I still stand by my comment. Not that it isn't fair, just know that Anaz would be paying...
:nervous:
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Just to clarify, this is entirely seperate from NW.
All hosted stuff on NW will still be done for free, it's just I'll be enforcing a "part of your campaign" rule on uploaded files.
So no more using the server to trade warez.........err...not that I've ever let anyone do that :nervous:.
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Ahh right.
*pulls all his warez off NW*<_< .... >_>
Carry on charging up the ying-yang then.
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well you can print your own money
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print your own money i go out to steal