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silversolitaire) wrote2001-03-14 03:28 pm
silversolitaire) wrote2001-03-14 03:28 pm
A Place to Call Home...
Hm, what to do... I could now wait for 9ug to get their crap done and enable pop-up banners, but I'm quite sure I'll only be annoyed then, because how I know them, they'll probably have one pop-up banner each for every page and in my frame sets this'll mean that I get 5 pop-ups each! Unbareable! Plus, they'll probably have these nasty banners that call themselves "Free Video" and don't ask me how and why, but they are exe-files! I noticed that when I had Download Accelerator accidentally open! That's outrageous and potentially dangerous for the people's systems! `_´ And they take ages to load, too. *hmpf*
9ug wasn't the coolest. They don't support my java scripts sometimes and are unstable. I don't know... many contras actually, no?
Maybe Ishould consider getting an account at Slashcity after all. They don't give me a hard time for having slash on my site, which is pornographic for most other sites (grrrrr) and they charge 7$ for 50 megs per month. Not sure if that's a good deal or not... *sighs*
I have to take action soon. I'll lose all my visitors!! So far, I have an average of 39 visitors a day which is awesome and I have no clue how I deserve that. And I'd like to keep that, too! ´_`:
Ah... what's a poor girl to do... I'm uncertain about the bandwidth thing. with let's say 40 visitors a day and a site that's ca. 15 megs so far (but there's one MP3 on it that I'll get rid of, so let's say 10 megs), how much bandwidth does that produce? Well, most of the megs are picture galleries and I doubt that every single visitor looks at every single picci, so I guess they just check out the html-files which can't be more than 1 meg on the whole.... ack... I have no clue.
9ug wasn't the coolest. They don't support my java scripts sometimes and are unstable. I don't know... many contras actually, no?
Maybe Ishould consider getting an account at Slashcity after all. They don't give me a hard time for having slash on my site, which is pornographic for most other sites (grrrrr) and they charge 7$ for 50 megs per month. Not sure if that's a good deal or not... *sighs*
I have to take action soon. I'll lose all my visitors!! So far, I have an average of 39 visitors a day which is awesome and I have no clue how I deserve that. And I'd like to keep that, too! ´_`:
Ah... what's a poor girl to do... I'm uncertain about the bandwidth thing. with let's say 40 visitors a day and a site that's ca. 15 megs so far (but there's one MP3 on it that I'll get rid of, so let's say 10 megs), how much bandwidth does that produce? Well, most of the megs are picture galleries and I doubt that every single visitor looks at every single picci, so I guess they just check out the html-files which can't be more than 1 meg on the whole.... ack... I have no clue.
www.firefly.nu
*smirk*
We all buy the domain, find a half-decent host, and split the cost. Much bigger savings than having to fork out monthly, especially since you can get some really cheap domain hosts ...
firefly? o_O
In principle I've got no objections to this, but I'm not sure if this was any improvement to my situation. Right now I have silver.9ug.com, I *might* get silver.slashcity.com, and anything else would be... like silver.firefly.nu, no? So, not really a change. Or did I misunderstand something? Hm? ^_^
Re: firefly? o_O
Cairnsy decided she wanted a domain. So in one of the journal entries, she wrote out a list of available ones so others could help her chose. www.firefly.com was one of them.
Kat liked firefly.nu. So did Cairnsy. Kat asked Cairnsy if she could host her, and offered Cairnsy money. Cairnsy's eyes lit up, because splitting domain fee's and hosting costs means that Cairnsy will not go broke.
So Cairnsy though, hey! Someone else will surely want to be involved in this, if you can get three or four people involved who want to share the domain name and host you can actually get one of the very stable hosting thingies.
So Cairnsy did some shopping around. $9.95 a month will get you some fabulous packages on completely stable servers. I saw a really nice one that was only $7.85 a month - 100mb of room, 20 subdomains for use, pretty great all round.
What it means is that we can get out *own* domain. www.firefly.nu (or www.cairnsy.com or whatever domain we want!) would be the base page that would lead to each of our websites, and *if* we wanted, we could subdomain it as well: www.silver.firefly.nu - or you could simply use firefly :)
No banners, no adds, no restrictions. Huge amount of space and a cost divided 4 ways. If you take the 8 dollar one, that's $2 each per month, and it's a real domain completely under our control.
Pretty cool, eh? I don't mind payinf for the actual domain name, it's the hosting that actually costs. However, even *I* can afford to pay $2 a week.
*grin*
Have I convinced you yet?
Cairnsy