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Yeah... There's something on the server when you download pics from the posts... Just click on the big link in the middle of the page it shows.
BTW - regarding change of server:
Nope... NAROD.RU is the best server I've found so far... 60 MB space, email adress included in registration, It's all FREE, and the ads are MINIMAL... And it's Russian, too, heh, heh. National feelings, you know...
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Yeah, but is this server in a 386 connected to a 14.4Kbps modem? 'cause it is the slowest one I've ever seen... God, downloading stuff at 200 bps makes me wanna cry.
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Quote:And it's Russian, too, heh, heh. National feelings, you know...
A smart webmaster drops the national feelings and goes with whatever host provides the best service. Internet performance has little to do with patriotism.
For example...Rhiannon and I live in Puerto Rico. Sure there are PR-based web hosts who actually have data centers in PR...but bandwidth to/from PR tends to be a bit wishy washy...not to mention the fact that PR-based data centers are horribly expensive. So we set up shop in far less expensive US-based data centers. Faster, cheaper, more reliable. National pride out the window (Rhiannon is actually Puerto Rican, unlike me, but regardless).
I'd knock on wood, but my desk is particle board.
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Quote:....Faster, cheaper, more reliable....
They may be faster.
They may be cheaper.
But certainly *not* reliable. :x
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The data center isn't the problem we're having...it's the administrators. We've now gone through a number of them, and yeah, we bought all new servers. The quad Xeon should be nice.
ThePlanet is one of the best data centers in the USA, but they tend to let idiots in the door...sometimes when you've just sunk $7000 into a new setup, you can't exactly afford to hire a $5k/month admin team...
I'd knock on wood, but my desk is particle board.
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Well, i just hope things turn out just fine this time =).
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ado, is digitalblackie hosted on the same servers as TBN? is that why Digitalblackie is down atm?
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It was. All of our sites were hosted on our one main server. However, we've now obtained two servers, one of which is being dedicated to TBN and TBN alone. Digital Blackie itself should be up within a few days (it's in the DNS propagation stage right now). TBN will follow shortly after that, when they finish building/installing its new server. Basically...when our server came crashing down, our sites as well as all of our client sites came crashing down with it.
But I can virtually promise that that won't happen again.
I'd knock on wood, but my desk is particle board.
