MASSIVEATTACK.IE

[ex]

Here you go Richo I've created a thread for you to tell us all about the site and its launch!

[richard]

Very kind of you Ex, for the thread all to myself.
My site will go public not this weekend, but 99% certain it will be the following weekend. It's still not entirely finished but it's finished enough to show off and me not get embarrassed about it
I would have been launching it this weekend but I've decided to move hosts from a shared hosting account to a dedicated VPS host for the next 2 years, change DNS, check site over twice for mistakes, finish uploading my giant stash of MA bootlegs/recordings to Megaupload... ah too many things...
But yeah, I feel confident it will take off and that large wishlist I originally posted here back in May about everything I wanted my site to have, has all been realized and then some
So yeah i suspect your all like it, don't want to say much more until launch day - 23/24 Feb.

[ex]

Whats a VPS host when its at home

[richard]

VPS - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server

No way, could i host any website from my home, dont have reliable enough internet connection for it unfortunately. A VPS is basically my own physical Linux server, even though it is on a server with other websites, but it will feel as I have the whole server to myself.
Also the RAM and CPU resources are completely dedicated to my site, so even if other users on the same server are using a lot of bandwidth/resources on their part of the server it wont affect the running of my site in the slightest.
These are all big advanatges over shared hosting and its not that much extra anyway, certainly not as much as getting a dedicated physical machine. The VPS I'm getting has a huge amount of monthly bandwidth awolance, enough for me to host MASSIVEATTACK.IE and a few other smaller websites/blogs I own/co-manage and have plenty of room for expansion in the future.

[ex]

Oh ok I think I know what a virtual server is... I think EXHQ.com is on one... hosting a website directly would be cool, I figured you need some high-powered supermachine in Canary Wharf for that, but I guess anything always-on would do... well I look forward to it all Richo... try and pick some better colour schemes than Madotorg did for his...

[yesterday]

Very beautiful

[richard]

Did you see it yesterday?
I had to make the site public for an hour or so this afternoon to properly test a few things. The grand opening will be Sunday/Monday.

[briaeos]

i guess that i managed to visit it then...looks great...even had a chance to take a quiz...

[richard]

Really...cool.That version of the site is about a week old however. Some of links not working yet. And I have'nt finished uploading yet to Megaupload yet...42GB of 51.2GB still to go. Did you have time to visit the forum?

[briaeos]

no, i tried but then i was prompted to enter username and password (authorization required)...

[richard]

That would have been me restoring the .htaccess file on the root directory
Just hand tight for a few more days

[yesterday]

I have seen ..... In speed ;D

I could not subscribe to the forum

Richard thanks

[richard]

Thanks. Your one of the few to see my site in its unfinished state. It will be opening for all very soon... ;D

[ex]

I slightly changed the look of MA [COLLECTIVE] recently, hope some find it to their liking. MAIE is a link on there of course

[richard]

Thanks for that link Ex. I have one as well to MA[Collective] on my links page.