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Burke Prefect

Cafe Owner, Superhero

Join date: 29 Oct 2004

Posts: 2,785

11-19-2005 18:27

What do you, the SL community, expect from a webhost. what services, bandwidth, pricing?
What kind of servers do you need? TeamSpeak, Shoutcast, Smitten?

What do YOU people really want? What do you look for in hosting? Would you be more apt to go with a hosting company more geared specifically for SL?

And, one more thing, how much does it end up costing you when Grid-to-Host coomunications gets snafu'd for days at a time?

plzkthx and all that.

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Disclosure: I'm asking this becasue a)I keep hearing bitching about Dreamhost, and b) a freind of mine runs a Hosting company and wants to expand. He happens to host my sites.</em>

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blaze Spinnaker

1/2 Serious

Join date: 12 Aug 2004

Posts: 5,898

11-19-2005 19:19

Get a dedicated box in the same colo that LL is hosted in.

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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."

Alondria LeFay

Registered User

Join date: 2 May 2003

Posts: 725

11-19-2005 22:22

Requirements I have:

1) SSH shell access. Can't do without.
2) Access to GCC and other language.
3) Quick round trip time between SL and the server
4) MySQL

Wish List:
1) Ability to run a perpetual background task or two

Bandwidth:
Minimal. Email/RPC uses barely any. I think I use about 50 megs of my 160 gigs of bandwidth at Dreamhost.

Storage:
I think I'd be happy with 500meg'ish. Of course, more the marrier. (I have 6gigs and rising at Dreamhost)

Pricing:
I currently pay almost nothing (I paid 77cents/month for the first year at Dreamhost. My bill to renew ended up costing me about $3.33 month for the second year), so it would have to be really cheap.

Cost due to downtime:
This is rather difficult... At this point, I doubt I would have anything too serious in world that did not have a backup server with a different host.

Huns Valen

Don't PM me here.

Join date: 3 May 2003

Posts: 2,749

11-19-2005 23:17

Response that would have earned me a "Let's walk." session with my supervisor, when I was doing this stuff for a living:
"We don't block that. You'll have to talk to the other guys, it's on their end."

Response that we were expected to give:
"As a rule, we don't block that. I had one of our network engineers double-check the access control lists and see if anything else might be wrong, and it doesn't seem that anything is. I looked up the phone number to the other company. We'll call them during business hours."

The organization that controls the hardware needs to take responsibility, even if they're sure it is on the other guy's side. They should actively drive issues and escalate within their own organization when something isn't satisfactorily resolved in a reasonable time frame.

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What are SL developers looking for in a Hosting company.
Burke Prefect Cafe Owner, Superhero Join date: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 2,785	11-19-2005 18:27 What do you, the SL community, expect from a webhost. what services, bandwidth, pricing? What kind of servers do you need? TeamSpeak, Shoutcast, Smitten? What do YOU people really want? What do you look for in hosting? Would you be more apt to go with a hosting company more geared specifically for SL? And, one more thing, how much does it end up costing you when Grid-to-Host coomunications gets snafu'd for days at a time? plzkthx and all that. <em> Disclosure: I'm asking this becasue a)I keep hearing bitching about Dreamhost, and b) a freind of mine runs a Hosting company and wants to expand. He happens to host my sites.</em> _____________________ My Blog \| My Board \| My Cafe\| My Slex
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	11-19-2005 19:19 Get a dedicated box in the same colo that LL is hosted in. _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Alondria LeFay Registered User Join date: 2 May 2003 Posts: 725	11-19-2005 22:22 Requirements I have: 1) SSH shell access. Can't do without. 2) Access to GCC and other language. 3) Quick round trip time between SL and the server 4) MySQL Wish List: 1) Ability to run a perpetual background task or two Bandwidth: Minimal. Email/RPC uses barely any. I think I use about 50 megs of my 160 gigs of bandwidth at Dreamhost. Storage: I think I'd be happy with 500meg'ish. Of course, more the marrier. (I have 6gigs and rising at Dreamhost) Pricing: I currently pay almost nothing (I paid 77cents/month for the first year at Dreamhost. My bill to renew ended up costing me about $3.33 month for the second year), so it would have to be really cheap. Cost due to downtime: This is rather difficult... At this point, I doubt I would have anything too serious in world that did not have a backup server with a different host.
Huns Valen Don't PM me here. Join date: 3 May 2003 Posts: 2,749	11-19-2005 23:17 Response that would have earned me a "Let's walk." session with my supervisor, when I was doing this stuff for a living: "We don't block that. You'll have to talk to the other guys, it's on their end." Response that we were expected to give: "As a rule, we don't block that. I had one of our network engineers double-check the access control lists and see if anything else might be wrong, and it doesn't seem that anything is. I looked up the phone number to the other company. We'll call them during business hours." The organization that controls the hardware needs to take responsibility, even if they're sure it is on the other guy's side. They should actively drive issues and escalate within their own organization when something isn't satisfactorily resolved in a reasonable time frame. _____________________ [ huns? \|\| words \|\| 1TBS KREW \|\| VHI Aircraft \|\| Whitepaper on Aircraft Physics ] Make yourself and your objects immune to llPushObject().

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