Preserved Topic: formclot.net sig hosting -

The sig hosting on formclot.net will be going away indefinately, shortly.
I'll give those of you who are using this service a few days to snag your images....
I suspect it'll all be gone in 3 days time.

I'm sad to hear that Michael, but it was good while it lasted esp with a 50kb limit.
Just wanted to thank you for the service.

Micahel: Yep thanks for the service - it was very useful and will be sorely missed.

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doh.

Thanks Michael for hosting my very first sig. You are the hoster with the moster.
Your help was greatly appreciated.

Pisser.

Nice run though, glad you were able to help for the time that you have.

=)

Michael .. That's really a sad thing ... is it a size issue? bandwidth? hosting? ... Write me an e-mail and we might be able to work out something. I'm prepared to consider taking over the service if I can manage the size/bandwidth/maintenance issues.

No promises, but I've got a few oodles of gigabytes going (slightly) spare, and a fast adsl link (shared with my radio station).


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips

Well that explains everything.

-RN3-

how come we are running out of sig uploaders?
the miscminutiae and imahosting are gone.

Because web hosting costs money.

The more space, the more transfer used, the more money it costs....

Yannah ... Because a lot of the hosting sites are set up by volunteers, and occasionally they move house, or can't afford to continue paying an ISP for other people's convenience.


Bug-free software only exisits in two places
A programmer's mind and a salesman's lips

ok ok ok, like Slime has a *small* issue with the interchangeable use of the words "java" and "javascript" I have to go on record with my pet peeve of the interchangeable use of "web host" and "ISP".

web host: someone you pay to host your web site(s). Virtual, dedicated, colocated all kinds, but hosting webs and web apps for the world to access.

ISP: someone you pay and use to in order to *connect* to the internet. DSL, cable, dedicated lines, dialup, all that, connecting to the internet via your Internet Service Provider.

While it's not beyond reason that the 2 would get mixed up and ISP used as a blanket term, it makes my skin crawl and in some cases it might even be anti-communicative to say such a thing, could confuse the heck out of someone you see.

Ahhhh. Feel better now.

Jason

Of course, confusing the issue even further is the fact that many ISP's also serve (on various levels) as web hosts (though I've never heard of a web host being an ISP)

Lovely rant, Jason. I agree.... now quit whinin'. =)

I suppose I'll take this opportunity to chime in.
I'll shoot out a blanket "thank you" to all the folks who shot emails my way to say "thanks for the sig hosting while it lasted".
Certainly wasn't expected... especially in the volume received.

I've had a number of people ask why this service is being cut-off.
And here ya have it:

The sig host was set up for Asylum use only. Despite various attempts... I cannot seem to limit the images to outside locations. I'm done fucking with it at this point. I won't bother myself with another 5 minutes of tinkering with the 6 lines of code that should be working as is.
With my sig hosting showing up #1 on google, everyone and their mother goes in and uploads. Last I checked, I was hosting around 1300 images. As I said... I've been unable to limit outside linking, therefore you can imagine how many of those images are non-asylum linked (150 asylum images... tops).
Lastly.... I set the sig host up just as the name implies. "Sig host".
While I can't limit what exactly anyone uploads... I went on the silly assumption that the whole thing was "understood".
I wasn't offering up webspace so asylum folks could upload pictures of their brother's dog to show to their friends and family.

So I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to bother being frustrated about it..... I'm just going to shut it down. No biggie.
*shrug*

Pretty simple.



[This message has been edited by Michael (edited 07-15-2003).]

Sorry Jason, I was confused by my own circumstance .. you see .. I pay my ISP for the bandwidth I consume ... I don't have a web host I am my web host :P

haha! was that a rant? No way =)

trib: no apologies necessary, I'm not dimwitted so much so that this would frustrate me to the point of requiring an apology, just retentive and having a good typing day. Somebody Q meh! =)

Jason

Still, I need an uploader, deviantart's great but too slow.

Oh.

Try boomspeed.com, Yannah.

Michael, I'm sorry to hear people abused your service. I never used it, but thanks so much for keeping it available for so long.

pfft.

it won't take you too long to realise that you actually liked the abuse.

and then you'll come running back, suckah.

oh, and thanks for the hosting while it lasted, blah blah blah.

*stab*

I don't have a credit card, therefore, I only uses freeware uploaders.

oh.

*bellah laugh*

If peeps are looking for free hosts , I've found a lot of ISPs offer hosting if you dial up with them or whatever and dont have ads, they'll assume you'll be dialing up with them, but I dont think they'd check or even care. e.g www.eircom.net Ireland's main ISP (they own all the copper in the last/local loop thing so they 0wnz the market, they're whores too) they offer free hosting AFAIK, how much space im not sure, but ISPs are usually sorted when it comes to bandwidth and don't limit you.
If you do a search for free hosting you'll get the usual tripod/geocities style places, do a search for like "free internet access" or similar and scout about, same goes for email accounts.

my ?0.02

what the. I don't need to connect to them just to get a free uploader. I could manage to look somewhere.

Hugh: With an eircom net residential free account you get 20 MB of Webspace to host your own website -
With an eircom net subscription account you get 100 MB of Webspace to host your own website -

Oh come on people! Is $10/mo really that much to pay? Use your KFC acquired money to pay for a real host, Yannah.

see here