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Jul. 26th, 2016 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe’re going to have to switch to offsite hosting for our websites. ACD won’t do a static IP address unless we buy a business account. I couldn’t find figures on that, but they start with the assumption of at least thirty voice lines, so… Yeah.
I can find hosting for us with a company we’ve done business with before for domain registration for $10 a month for 'unlimited' sites, storage, bandwidth, and domain registration. I’m very dubious of the 'unlimited' part, but we’re not likely to run up against reasonable limits. I think my fic site gets the most traffic, and that’s not particularly much. The photo/video site takes more space but mostly gets traffic from various grandparents. Hosting a single site with 100 GB of storage is only $2 cheaper per month, so I don’t see any point in going that direction.
I thought Scott would fight me on this because he’s never been willing to talk to me about the idea before, but he says the price is good and that it’s been getting harder and harder to keep our webserver safe.
I don’t know if we’ll bother to transfer the PlotLuck website proper. I don’t think that gets any use at all. Though maybe I could invest the time necessary to do something with it. I haven’t had access to meddle with it, and Scott hasn’t had time. We’ve talked about posting our rules as an open source thing. Probably no one would notice, but who knows? It’s a pretty simple system geared toward one shot games, so maybe someone might want to tweak it or borrow from it for their own use. We’ve been using the rules since the 1980s, so we know the weak points.
I need to check and make sure that I can keep my email address associated with our url since I’ve used that in a few places where I didn’t want to go with Gmail (pretty much PayPal and anything I use PayPal with). I just don’t want my PayPal account connected to a webmail account.
I can find hosting for us with a company we’ve done business with before for domain registration for $10 a month for 'unlimited' sites, storage, bandwidth, and domain registration. I’m very dubious of the 'unlimited' part, but we’re not likely to run up against reasonable limits. I think my fic site gets the most traffic, and that’s not particularly much. The photo/video site takes more space but mostly gets traffic from various grandparents. Hosting a single site with 100 GB of storage is only $2 cheaper per month, so I don’t see any point in going that direction.
I thought Scott would fight me on this because he’s never been willing to talk to me about the idea before, but he says the price is good and that it’s been getting harder and harder to keep our webserver safe.
I don’t know if we’ll bother to transfer the PlotLuck website proper. I don’t think that gets any use at all. Though maybe I could invest the time necessary to do something with it. I haven’t had access to meddle with it, and Scott hasn’t had time. We’ve talked about posting our rules as an open source thing. Probably no one would notice, but who knows? It’s a pretty simple system geared toward one shot games, so maybe someone might want to tweak it or borrow from it for their own use. We’ve been using the rules since the 1980s, so we know the weak points.
I need to check and make sure that I can keep my email address associated with our url since I’ve used that in a few places where I didn’t want to go with Gmail (pretty much PayPal and anything I use PayPal with). I just don’t want my PayPal account connected to a webmail account.
