26 Jan, 2008, dexatrin82 wrote in the 42nd comment:
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Yeah Using http://zeno.biyg.org and I go to Login and it doesn't even show me as a user online.
26 Jan, 2008, dexatrin82 wrote in the 43rd comment:
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Yeah Because I am really trying to find a place to develop a mud I've been working on offline for almost a year now. And am sick of using cygwin to work on a mud. I'm probably going to take a while to make 5 good posts though, so just wondering if here can be any exception to that rule?
26 Jan, 2008, David Haley wrote in the 44th comment:
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The standards for "good post" seem to be pretty low… so I wouldn't worry about it too much. :wink:
Yeah Because I am really trying to find a place to develop a mud I've been working on offline for almost a year now. And am sick of using cygwin to work on a mud. I'm probably going to take a while to make 5 good posts though, so just wondering if here can be any exception to that rule?
Install Linux. :D Don't have to worry about Cygwin then. :D
29 Jan, 2008, David Haley wrote in the 46th comment:
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Well if you take that option seriously, and assuming all you want is really just a Linux environment, you could install a virtual machine running Linux quite easily. It would give you a Linux environment to work in, and would make it easier to transition to a Linux host later on.
Well if you take that option seriously, and assuming all you want is really just a Linux environment, you could install a virtual machine running Linux quite easily. It would give you a Linux environment to work in, and would make it easier to transition to a Linux host later on.
I recommend VirtualBox or VMWare Player. Both are free as in beer, and VirtualBox has an open source version, if that's important to you. Of the two, VMWare seems to be the more stable, but I haven't had any problems with anything except Gentoo Linux under VirtualBox.
Hello to you all. Couldn't help but overhear something about a free mud hosting? Thank God. I have been everywhere having to jump through flaming hoops and perform circus acts and lord knows what else to get one. and even then they're still like "heh heh heh, I got the space, you need us, so you can wait a year". I mean, what Zeno has up there is reasonable. He doesn't want some crazy ass noob spammer to use his space and I think that's a rather respectable request if you ask me. This is my first post – yes I know, but hey, what he said caught my attention. :alien:
It's painful to watch, I remember the days of needing free hosts. lol
Nah, not really, it's just amusing because we don't see new additions here that often, let alone of the variety who post that they'll be around now and then follow up with "ok, I made it.." :wink: :lol:
Davion said:
A million posts is nothing if only one or two is quality ;)
Oh I know it, I suppose that I might have enough posts to qualify for Zeno's hosting at this point, but it's taken me 23 months to get here. :wink:
I've brought it up on TMC and MudMagic (recently), and it seems everyone agrees/neutral(?).
Here is a quote of mine from TMC:
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Yes, but this is MUD related. For some reason all MUD related prices seem to be like 100x more expensive. MudMagic offers 100MB for $8/month. Most MUD hosts are around this price.
Then you have "normal" hosts that offer like 1,500 GB for like $10/month.
I know that MUDs don't consume a lot of HDD space, but seriously. There's no reason to skimp on giving out space.
Heh. Well I guess that roundaboutly answered what I was after. I fall somewhere just off the same mark and can't be considered "normal" by whoever thinks we can all just give away multiple gigabyte accounts like they're water.
In all honesty though, "normal" MUD hosting is obsolete, we just haven't realized it yet. For the truly dedicated who think they need 2GB of space, a VPS is a much better alternative. For $20/month you basically get the whole thing to yourself, usually with a minimum of 5GB and all the CPU and RAM you can consume in what's been allocated to the VPS. Plus you have root, so you get to decide how the system is configured.
17 Apr, 2008, David Haley wrote in the 60th comment:
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While I think 100MB is a little small, 1.5GB is a little excessive and frankly is probably worth more than $10/month when you consider that an operation that size is likely to be using a fair amount of other resources. FWIW I think that Samson's prices are very reasonable given what you get for them in terms of resources and service. Either way, I agree with him: if somebody needs something that big, they probably want a virtual machine hosting solution anyhow.
Make better poast?!? :D