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Jan. 17th, 2005 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
How do you know that your day is going to be bad?
You find out that Joanne's Satellite has colapsed because the webhost now wants money, yet the insane MST3K/Monty Python and the Holy Grail crossover still lives.
You find out that Joanne's Satellite has colapsed because the webhost now wants money, yet the insane MST3K/Monty Python and the Holy Grail crossover still lives.
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Date: 2005-01-17 02:44 pm (UTC)If I could, I'd offer ad free hosting for everyone in the MST3K fan fic community, but I'm not exactly in a position to do that. *sighs* I hate feeling powerless.
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Date: 2005-01-17 03:51 pm (UTC)But the really sad thing is you probably could. Or at least it's fesible, considering the MST3K fanfiction page hosts about a third of the total fic count in the fandom already, whats another 70* or so?
*This excludes the one act play project, but inculdes drabbles, and series only counts once, so the actual text amount is greater that it apperars. But the actual fic cout is about 113.
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Date: 2005-01-17 05:12 pm (UTC)She moved to here, but THAT host closed down too a few weeks ago.
But the really sad thing is you probably could. Or at least it's fesible, considering the MST3K fanfiction page hosts about a third of the total fic count in the fandom already, whats another 70* or so?
No, no, no. Hosting fics = no problem. Steff hosts them right now. It's providing hosting space controlled by other users for a homepage. Many ficcers and whatnot rely on free webspace which is either 1) Loaded with ads or 2) Shortlived. This is a big reason why pages randomly "die".
Now, if I wanted to provide, say, Nightcat with personal webspace at teddog.com/nightcat/ that she could access with FTP, it would cause a huge mess. Our unix box (the computer I babysit for spare change) is reserved for Multimedia students, students who are paying good money for an tuition. It would be unfair to the students to give away hosting. Plus, if a hosted student takes out our bandwidth (the amount of data we're allowed to transfer in a month), we can chase down the student and get them to pay up for the extra bandwidth costs. If someone I'm hosting on Teddog.com fries the bandwidth, guess who gets suck with the bill?
As for me hosting just fics, I'll think about it. I have a lot on my server space already (the Maniac Mansion MP3 project, Signal Loss, Military Dogs when I get my butt in gear). The MST3K Fan Fiction Page still exists in theory. I just can't update because the actual pages are on SLWatson's domain and I don't have the password. The geocities page is just a frameset.
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Date: 2005-01-17 05:49 pm (UTC)And as the actual hosting, I'm sorta doing that already. It's giving me a complex though because since I've started I've already lost a story or two because I stop and then the sites go *poof* and not all of it was in the google cache...
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Date: 2005-01-18 05:46 am (UTC)Do you still have the URLs? You might be able to dig up something using the Internet Archive.
my advice...
Date: 2005-01-17 03:38 pm (UTC)Evil, evil people with there at first free then not free, stuff.
Atleast the crossover lives on...
Re: my advice...
Date: 2005-01-17 03:59 pm (UTC)PuppetMistress(PM) was on homestead, then on some other place, but it never stood a chance since she had to acually code stuff then because with homestead you didn't have to code. Claire has issues with Crosswinds first, and then a few places after that, but eventualy the site just got too damm big and it was popular to the point that no one could get to the site anymore. Icacu-chan's Yomi shrie was constantly screwed over by MSN to the point that it was too difficult to understand how to get from point a to point b.
It's scary the things you remember.