Mayhem-Online

Archive for August, 2009

There’s been some further problems with connecting to my other two sites still hosted under smoovenet, namely they are not connecting properly to the databases and keep timing out. Most likely visitors have had trouble getting into the sites – you can keep reloading the page until it connects (which it does eventually) – and its rather frustrating right now as I lead up to the transferrance (sp?) of the sites across to a new host.

Smoovenet themselves have now come out and admitted the truth – they are no longer interested in hosting sites anymore (their wording was more to the ‘we can’t offer the support as in the past’) and have given us until the end of September to get our sites off their servers and onto someone else’s. It wasn’t really a great way to go and I am still disappointed with them but ultimately discovered I had a lot less freedom on their servers than I thought.

ReBoot Mayhem and Edge of Beyond were definitely moving anyway, it was more or less me waiting until the opportune time (and when the money was available lol) in order to transfer them to a new host. That and I was still making sure that the host this site and Animay are currently on are what I want for RBM and EoB. So far these past few months have been really good and I’ve been impressed though admittedly I’ve not run into problems that I needed to test their support out on just yet so I’m still a little hesitant. But Mayhem-Online and Animay have been doing fine so far so I don’t see why there would be any issues around creating new accounts for the other sites here.

The account will be created by Thursday or Friday of this week, with EoB packing up and moving across first over the weekend (Sept 5th-6th). Shortly after that I’ll be moving RBM across too. Pixelacious is the only site not being moved, it will be deleted instead. I apologise to any fans who submitted their artwork to Pixelacious but the original idea was to get image galleries integrated within RBM and EoB rather than a third separate site. If I can get these up and running, fans already members of the Edge of Beyond forums will be able to submit their own work there without having to re-sign up anywhere. They will be open for all fans to view as well. The galleries that may be integrated into the RBM website will mainly be for screencaps and other, possibly official stuff like wallpapers etc. This is the plan anyway.

The only issue I have is the downloading of video clips. An ftp account was setup on RBM specifically for these downloads however my new host doesn’t reall allow this so all downloads may be moved off site to a free file host account that I currently use (if you’ve downloaded any of my archived Animay clips or the music from this site then you’ll know of the account). We’ll see how things progress after everything has been shifted. Video clips and the like will be the last thing I’ll worry about.

If you are a regular poster or visitor of either RBM or Edge of Beyond, feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions, namely post  them here if you can’t get into EoB, there’s not a lot I can do about the connectivity issues with that site until after its been moved.

Yup its me birfday today, nothing special about it though (ie not a milestone or anything) just another day. I usually take my birthday off each year from work but since I’m having next Monday off and I’m also taking leave in a couple of weeks time I thought I’d better not push my luck lol. Anyway it was a nice day, nothing major happened and had my fellow work colleagues wish me a happy day today which was nice. I’m the only one that buys myself presents as its too expensive these days for everyone, not that it bothers me as I know what I like! I actually had a Gundam already on order (a Master Grade kit) which arrived the day before my birthday, and I ended up spoiling myself and buying another gundam today lol though it was not a Master Grade kit – I didn’t have that much money to spare.
Now its back to the grind again tomorrow, but at least the bonus is its Friday tomorrow and I have a long weekend ahead of me ^_^b