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Post by Kämpfer on Dec 18, 2005 17:25:59 GMT -5
Loker suggested we register a domain name so what does everyone think? Could it generate some more hits? Would it be easier for you to remember? Would you be willing to give a buck or two towards reserving it?
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Post by Loker on Dec 18, 2005 17:30:07 GMT -5
well see if you got one not only would it be easier to get to but it would allow you to list on the different search engines.....which may get more people who are looking for lans in michigan.....
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Post by Kämpfer on Dec 18, 2005 17:36:34 GMT -5
We already appear under southwest michigan lan and stok3d. We're also on lanparty.com...
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Post by Loker on Dec 19, 2005 14:34:53 GMT -5
yeah but a lot of people overlook proboard addresses......
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Post by Kämpfer on Dec 19, 2005 16:39:07 GMT -5
Good point... I doubt it would do anything but since our actual friends seem to have abandoned us maybe we should work on our community outreach program. I wonder if we can actually get a third vote in here. lol
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Post by euclidean© on Dec 19, 2005 23:36:24 GMT -5
Im actually looking at purchasing my own domain name. Do you allready have your own domain harvey?....or is all this through free hosting sites?....if you dont look at these 2: www.lunarpages.com/plan1.phpand www.dreamhost.com/shared/comparison.htmlIm thinking here in the next week or so of getting one through Dreamhost. whats nice about them is they add bandwith and storage each week automatically to your account so like after a month you go from having 4800MB storage to having 4960MB of storage...imagine if you kept the account for like 3 years...your talking some awesome addons  haha...but ya. Now i do remember harvey you were talking about a possibility of selling webspace?...now is that still on and if so what does the give us? cause the dreamhost...if I want to pay monthly its going to cost me 10/month....or 8/month if I pay for 2 years in advance. |
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Post by Kämpfer on Dec 20, 2005 8:04:46 GMT -5
Those monthly fees are pretty high... I was looking at like $8 per year. What are you going to be hosting that needs that much space? Are you going to let users dowload DVDs or what? lol I have a pbase account for the lan pics with about a gig of storage, but thats just for pictures. If you want to help me pay for that it would be $5-10 per year.
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Post by euclidean© on Dec 20, 2005 12:32:28 GMT -5
I plan on hosting a lot...covering it for the future...plus my family wants there own webpage..so im making a subdomain thats for our family...w/forums and the abilitiy to post pictures. But if you want...i can put space aside for pics for the LAN....so your pbase account...thats strictly for the pictures?...and then everything else is free?...like proboards and the home page?
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Post by Loker on Dec 20, 2005 13:13:43 GMT -5
that dreamhost is one of the more expensive ones I have seen.....I can not remember who I used but they had everything and they were cheap and it was like 98% up time guaranteed
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Post by euclidean© on Dec 20, 2005 13:59:27 GMT -5
Well the thing with dreamhost is...everyweek they up your bandwith and storage space....EBA is using them now for there host now...so far...its been great...dreamhost calls them when there is problems with the site...like it goes down...and the minute it goes down...if it goes down....they are working on it to get it working again...basically...there customer service is freaking awesome...plus I wouldnt have to deal with pop-ups and shit...i hate that about cheap/free sites...but whats out there that offers that same stuff for cheaper?....im not sure but out of the few people who have been looking for hosts for eba....this and lunar pages for what they offer has been really cheap...espeacially since you dont have to pay to register your domain name...and its a real domain name. Do you remember who it was at all...any name close?....loker..u better not be joking with me. what kind of stuff did they offer...like sizes and such? how much storage space? bandwith? any ideas?
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Post by Loker on Dec 20, 2005 14:06:37 GMT -5
I had unlimited bandwidth it was 50 GB's of storage ecommerce stuff....phpBB forums....lots of stuff
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Post by Loker on Dec 20, 2005 14:09:13 GMT -5
let me hunt around and see if I can find the site......I hosted google earth and had tons of people hitting my site from digg when I had it up so I would say its a good host....holy crap I was posted on a couple of high traffic sites and never knew it....I found it but they are not as good at pricing as they used to be  still good providers though |
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Post by Kämpfer on Dec 20, 2005 21:47:59 GMT -5
I plan on hosting a lot...covering it for the future...plus my family wants there own webpage..so im making a subdomain thats for our family...w/forums and the abilitiy to post pictures. But if you want...i can put space aside for pics for the LAN....so your pbase account...thats strictly for the pictures?...and then everything else is free?...like proboards and the home page? Basically yes, this is all hosted for free except the pbase site. I don't mind the google ads because they are relevant to the topic and don't interfere with the color scheme... Eba has a ton of traffic, far more than you'll be having anytime soon so it makes sense to pay $10/month. I'd say $10-20/year is more reasonable for your purposes, but then what would you do with the extra $100? Maybe a investment account? lol "FREE Hosting with domain name is Ad-supported Hosting. Ad-supported Web sites contain relevant online advertising on a small portion of the site, but DO NOT include obtrusive pop-up ads." The ones who already reserved www.stok3d.com GoDaddyI can't think of the one we were thinking about registering with. Where's Romain when you need him? |
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Post by euclidean© on Dec 21, 2005 1:05:16 GMT -5
lol...i see, but ya...I know im not looking at traffic like eba...but i want the space now....basically for future purposes...so i dont have to worry about anything in the future. The main thing is if I do get our "family" site up then there would be constant traffic during the day. but not nothing like eba...probably somewhere around what stok3d has now....but anyways with that site ill be able to go farther. One thing is our Director of Placement at school has an account with lunar pages....he has about 4 sites that he sells then built and maintains...he gets paid a monthly payment from the people he built them for and just one person pays double what he pays a month for the whole thing haha...but ya...i was thinking of something around that or who knows...something sometime haha.
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Post by Kämpfer on Dec 21, 2005 11:24:17 GMT -5
I say start small and work your way up...
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Post by BARK BARK BARK BARK on Dec 21, 2005 12:32:31 GMT -5
you can buy go daddy ulrs for like $10 a year. We were origianlly thinking of getting smg or something, since stok3d is taken.
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haha...but ya. Now i do remember harvey you were talking about a possibility of selling webspace?...now is that still on and if so what does the give us? cause the dreamhost...if I want to pay monthly its going to cost me 10/month....or 8/month if I pay for 2 years in advance.
still good providers though