MetaTalk posts tagged with hosting

No, my post is not about the Imageshack frog

Rhaomi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:40:22 -0800

What's the best way to link to a large image on Mefi? I'm planning a post which will have as one of its links a single large image (about 500 x 6500 pixels). I'm afraid that if I link straight to the image the server might tank or that the image will be simply removed. I could use an image hosting site like Imageshack or Photobucket, but those have their pitfalls, too. So is there any reliable site that could handle the load of serving a huge image to the Mefi crowd? Or should I maybe slice and dice the image into more manageable chunks and host those (which I can also do)?

How would I make MeFi greener?

mathowie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:00:52 -0800

I see there are "wind and solar powered" web hosts and I assume they just buy carbon and alternate energy credits because I doubt your site would stay up when it's dark and the wind isn't blowing. I saw Dreamhost described as a "carbon-neutral company" the other day. If I wanted to offset the energy required to power the mefi servers, how would I go about doing that? Just calculate hours in a day multiplied by the watt rating on the power supplies (as a worst-case scenario), then just buy alternate energy credits for that amount? (asking here because it's mefi related) ...and yeah, I know it's precious and a bit silly to buy credits when you can't really run a computer off wind and solar power 24/7 and it doesn't account for the power required by thousands of readers but I'm genuinely curious and would do it if it was a cost within reason.

policy on FPPs hosted on own site - self-links?

Funmonkey1 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:03:47 -0800

What is the proper way to FPP a fantastic audio link which is no longer available on the original site, but can be hosted on my own server? Does that make a self link even if it just an MP3 file download? Is there a third party service I should use?

Metafilter is being "ripped" in its entirety and copied by a server running in China.

Kato — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:48:30 -0800

http://www.metafilter.com.1bu.com/

Metafilter is being "ripped" in its entirety and copied by a server running in China. Apparently this guy is hitting everyone and everything, copying entire sites and hosting them, but hotlinking to images. What he gains from this I don't know, but add his IP address to the firewall rules so he can't do this.

Some others he's doing this to include porn sites, antique sites, major searh engines, game companies...you name it, they've been duplicated and are paying for image bandwidth if a surfer his his copied version of your site.

I only pray that ebay can smite him:

http://www.ebay.com.1bu.com/

Why does this redirect to Mefi?

dash_slot- — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:35:07 -0800

Matt, have you ever heard of this out fit - www.sendbackliberty.us

The url takes you to this page...!!

Looks well fishy to me.

So where are we with getting the server the hell outta Some Great Guy's closet

bonaldi — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:12:40 -0800

So where are we with getting the server the hell outta Some Great Guy's closet and into Some Proper Hosting Place? There's been talk of us stumping up, and that's fine by me. Especially if it means when I press the feed button of my cage I get good nourishing MeFi goodness, not "server refused the connection".

(filed under feature requests, although I'm not sure "works" is a feature)

When your webhost disappears

VulcanMike — Thu, 29 May 2003 09:00:54 -0800

Akashik? I signed up a few months ago for hosting from these guys after seeing a MeFi textad. They have been down for over 24 hours now... Does anyone know a good place to go when your webhost disappears and they have no phone number and can't email them for help?

Is this the way to do self-links?

maniactown — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:38:08 -0800

This thread is interesting to me, because I've held off posting similar content, for fear of reprisal and bandwidth usage. Is there an appropriate way to post 'discovered' content without having the MeFi Hall Monitors yell "SELF LINK! SELF LINK!"?

Web Hosting Question

jca — Sat, 06 Apr 2002 21:41:16 -0800

Not really happy with Burlee, so I'm looking for a new web host. I've read the Web Hosting Talk forums - a bit too much "noise" there. (And yes, I've read this posting on Metatalk.)

Specially, I'm looking for a UNIX based host that will allow me to host several domains (including my weblog) with one account. (Separate domains/urls, no URL redirects, sub-domain forwarding, or other database tricks.) Not necessarily looking for a cheapie "unlimited bandwidth" type of host, just reliable and up-front (unlike Burlee).

So anyone care to offer another round of web hosting recommendations (or warnings)?

So glad to be able to get here. Downtime?

bjgeiger — Sat, 08 Sep 2001 08:30:35 -0800

So glad to be able to get here. Downtime? What happened?

Self-promotional thread on web hosting

geoff. — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:48:36 -0800

This is turning into some shameless promoting. People are promoting their own web hosting companies and from the comments they seem to know what they are doing is wrong...

Web server services in the UK

williamtry — Sat, 21 Apr 2001 03:10:39 -0800

I'd like to set-up my own web server (like in the previous thread) in the UK - does anyone know of any reasonably-priced services? Also, what equipment will I need? Can I use ColdFusion for a reasonable price or is it mega-expensive? (more inside)