bah, webhosting is cheap and easy. I actually have two web hosts, I ue
linode.com for softcon.com, (costs me $5 a month), and that's where all
my commercial stuff goes. Then, I found a really nice 98-core server as
a retired server that I pay $36 a month for, which while expensive,
allows me to have an entire server to myself with no dependence on
anyone but myself for it's maintenance. Sure, it isn't for everyone,
but I've been using linux since before it was officially released as
version 1.0 , so maintaining a server running it on my own is second
nature. I keep this one for all the off the wall ideas I want to test,
anything I want to play with that could impact a commercial server that
needs to be up all the time, and the entire physical machine being mine
prevents a lot of the issues I'd otherwise have when I break something,
and services don't work properly until I get to them. :)
I'm actually contemplating offering game hosting again like I used to do
back in the late 90s when softcon first started, and I had the machines
in my home on a 3MBPS DSL line. That seemed to pay the bills quite
nicely, but I really didn't like all the users that thought I owed them
24 hours a day of my time just because they were paying me something
each month for using less than 5MB on the server, and didn't have a clue
what they were doing anyhow. I tell you, I don't miss those days. I do
kind of miss the whole being a service provider thing though, since I
like to help folks, and providing hosting at that time for way less than
most providers (including dial-up and web hosting, as well as game
hosting), was something I could do, and (mostly) enjoyed doing. Anyway,
A bit off topic, but If anyone wants to run their own mud or something,
let me know, if there's enough interest, perhaps I'll offer such
services again.
On 6/12/2020 1:04 AM, Shaun Everiss wrote:
Well to be honest, I manage a blog with another user.
Last year due to various hacks and security things I decided to see if
I could mod the heck out of the site.
The latest wordpress had some sort of health check and I put all sorts
of errors about security and the like.
While I managed to fix most of them php and sql were out of date and
that needed the host to move on this.
On sql they moved swiftly but on php they kept doing excuses saying it
would cause dammage to their network and others had issues.
In late march round the 28th, there was a 2 day server outage, with no
explanation.
When everything came back up, I was plesently surprised that not only
was everything updated but they had updated to the latest version.
I am unsure how it happened but it did.
It happened with no notification and was utterly random though.
So I am not sure if the messages sent did anything.
So yeah, web hosts hmph.
If it ever gets accessible my plan will be to get a cheap web hosting
plan maybe something with a gb or so of storage and maybe some
bandwidth enough to serve a wordpress blog.
Either that or just make another wordpress blog on wordpress free,
link it with a .tk domain then use keybase.public for file storage.
At least if keybase starts working that is what I may end up doing.
Its just good that it was eventually done
On 12/06/2020 12:29 am, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote:
Believe me John, I've had that same thought over and over during the
years, Haha!
What has finally got me to stick it out during these issues, are
horror stories from others about the web hosts they've used, and
realizing how rare these issues have been over the entire 21-22 years
I've used them. It's one of those things like if the power goes out
for 20 minutes someone gets upset, until they stop and remember it's
the first time they've lost power in 3 years. All in all, it isn't so
bad, I just get angry in the moment.
Over the years, I think I've heard similar web host horror stories
about all of the main providers. Now I'm sure someone who sets up a
static page to post some cooking recipes, or a standard blog type of
setup, could probably go forever without any issues on almost any web
host. There's a lot fewer ways the web host could mess them up,
because their site has very few requirements. It could just be me
running across a specific set of stories by coincidence, but I've
developed the belief that any web host I move to is going to have
it's own problems every now and then. All I'd be doing is spending a
ton of work moving to a new place that will be more of the same.
Maybe not the exact same problems, but it'll have some way of messing
up my normal flow every few years or so. Haha, maybe this is just me
trying to avoid all of the work of moving everything over to a new host.
- Aprone
On Thursday, June 11, 2020, 7:30:06 AM EDT, john
<jpcarnemo...@gmail.com> wrote:
That's... one weird web host.
I know you've had quite a few problems with them in the past. It
might be worth considering switching away, even though it'll cost a
bit of time, because a decent host shouldn't be modifying your
traffic (or having any of the other problems you have, really).
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