http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Tag: hosting - Recent Posts en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:37:19 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6865 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:02:24 +0000 Chris Poirier 6865@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>You can get the WordPress theme I built for <a href="http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org" rel="nofollow">http://fiction.courage-my-friend.org</a> from github: <a href="https://github.com/cpoirier/sectionedprose" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cpoirier/sectionedprose</a> — it's pretty flexible, but needs a few additional plugins to get everything to work.</p> <p>If you want to use it, you can email me with questions and I'll do my best to help you get set up.</p> <p>Chris. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6864 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:11:44 +0000 Kyt Dotson 6864@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>There.</p> <p>I've gotten my host for millvexations.com to give me some extra domains and added my holding page whilst I wait to recover the lost data from the now inaccessible hard drive (nothing like not being in the same state as the dead server.)</p> <p><a href="http://www.blackhatmagick.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.blackhatmagick.com</a></p> <p>I even went so far as to make multiple versions of the background (it chooses randomly on reload.) That'll have to hold down the fort whilst gears and sprockets gambol in the background as I edit and produce <em>Tango &amp; Cahce</em> and get a new Wordpress installation prepared. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6860 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:10:11 +0000 Kyt Dotson 6860@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Thanks for the info Cassandra, I will check those out.</p> <p>Perhaps this hosting failure is a sign that I need to get trucking on Vexations Vol 15 -- after all, I have a local businessman offering to help me with printing costs. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6858 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:31:02 +0000 cassandrastryffe 6858@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>This is the host that I use. The owner, Alexander Hollins, is really great guy. Head on over and check out a few of the serials there. I've done pretty well there myself, fyi. And Mr Hollins is very, very helpful!</p> <p><a href="http://stories.dreamfantastic.com/" rel="nofollow">http://stories.dreamfantastic.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://stories.dreamfantastic.com/zombiediapers" rel="nofollow">http://stories.dreamfantastic.com/zombiediapers</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6856 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:08:54 +0000 Kyt Dotson 6856@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Thanks, I'll take a look at those. I have a lot of time on my hands for research at the moment. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6855 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:04:21 +0000 Ellipsis 6855@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hey, sorry to hear about your hosting--that must be really annoying.</p> <p>Re: the wordpress themes, I use a (heavily) modified form of <a href="http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/10/06/jello-wala-mello-wordpress-theme/">Jello Wala Mello</a> which I have quite liked. I think the key things to look out for is a theme which allows you to have a frontpage more like a website (ie, less like a blog; allows readers to get an idea of where to start, what the story's about, and to skim the last few instalments), and then post sites which are plain and easily readable. I had to do a lot of modification to get that happening (took out sidebars etc because in my view they're distracting when you're reading).</p> <p>Where's an old forum post <a href="http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/wordpress-themes-for-webfiction">here</a> that might be of use.</p> <p>If you see some themes you like, I'm sure folk here will be able to give you feedback on how well they think it might work for a webserial... ;) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/lost-my-hosting-black-hat-magick#post-6854 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:01:25 +0000 Kyt Dotson 6854@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Well, more or less. After two weeks of trying to find out why my server (and thus site) was down, I've discovered that the server's motherboard toasted itself into a lump or charcoal. Or, as Elaine would put it, the mobo let the magic smoke out.</p> <p>I spent most of today making a pretty little page that will temporarily hold its place whilst I line up new hosting. I made cute graphics and everything! It will take me some time to get the hard drive out of the hold server so that I can restore the old site from backup. However, until that happens, I won't have Dread Vote online anymore. Instead, I'm going to have to run with the next novel.</p> <p>Question, though, for those who might be in the know. What's a good Wordpress theme for webserials? I was running with a weird variation on Hemingway that I'd come to like -- although it did seem to have some issues for readers. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software/page/2#post-4919 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:34:48 +0000 irk 4919@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I picked Drupal for Peacock King's software, since it can pretty much be made into anything if you know how. The next year or so was spent learning how, and now I have a JOB doing Drupal, so that worked out. PK's site redesign is underway, and the next stage will be utilizing a lot more of the strengths of Drupal and the special things it can do. (Referencing any page to another page, for instance, so character profiles can automatically list the character's parents and such, and what chapter they first appeared in. Things like that can be automated in Drupal instead of all set up by hand.)</p> <p>I'm hosted on <a href="http://digitalnovelists.com/">Digital Novelists</a>, but Char and I manage our own Drupal install - you can use DN as a ready-made Drupal host, but what we wanted was a host who was set up specifically for Drupal and had Drupal-specific support, since our previous cheap host (Omnis) claimed to be set up for Drupal but their install script was broken and they wouldn't allow proper database access and they had an unexplained outage for an entire weekend with no replies during it as to what was going on and how long it would last.</p> <p>Anyway, MeiLin's hosting is set up for Drupal, and she was perfectly happy to let us manage our own hearth as it were, so that's what we did. &lt;3 No complaints. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software/page/2#post-4911 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:31:34 +0000 zoewhitten 4911@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I'm hosting my site and my blog with GoDaddy. Their site is butt-ugly, but in the three years I've been with them, the only time my site had downtime was when I took it down during annual renovations. That's 99.9% percent uptime. Can't beat that with a stick. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software#post-4908 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:38:27 +0000 Kess 4908@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>@Grace - I haven't had any problems with them, but I can see what you're saying! I keep a pretty close eye on them, having been bitten by previous (and much worse) webhosts before. Thanks for the heads-up. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software#post-4892 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:02:04 +0000 capriox 4892@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Wystie, I'm making the jump off of LJ, too. I'm going with Digital Novelists. In addition to what Allan said, you get the benefit of being in a webfiction-focused group, with cross-promotion between all the authors/stories on site. MeiLin has also built the site so that the FAQs and default settings are pro-webfiction (if that makes sense). It's based on Drupal, which is apparently very customizable like Wordpress. I'm not familiar with either system, so there isn't any difference to me which one I have to learn! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software#post-4885 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:00:41 +0000 Dash 4885@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Just a book on the web site I already have. I thought about setting up a new web site for the story, but really I can't be dealing with yet another site and password! Just want to write!</p> <p>Also means I have total control over the design and well, everything, really! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software#post-4871 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:19:58 +0000 Lyn Thorne-Alder 4871@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I'm sort of out in left field. My stories are hosted on a friend's server space, and it's all hand-done in HTML. Very old-school, and the only price to me is the domain names annually. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software#post-4868 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:50:15 +0000 allantmichaels 4868@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I can't say enough good things about Digitalnovelists. MeiLin is incredibly responsive and very helpful when configuring your site. Drupal is pretty easy to figure out and very customisible.</p> <p>And you can't beat the price. There's a one-time fee and you get your own domain (in my case allantmichaels.digitalnovelists.com) and the hosting cost me nothing since my initial $15 investment. I just have to host a couple PW ads, which is fine by me. And she has an option to ditch that if you pay monthly. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-did-you-choose-your-current-webhost-software#post-4867 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:57:08 +0000 Jim Zoetewey 4867@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I host my story with myself, and use Wordpress for the CMS.</p> <p>I'm a web developer and resell webhosting from railsplayground.com, a web host that's highly focused on Ruby on Rails (a programming framework). I figure that as long as I'm paying for massive amounts of hosting for my clients, I might as well host my own stuff there too (making it free, in effect). I charge clients $60 a year, roughly equivalent to what railsplayground charges for their smaller accounts.</p> <p>They're a small host, but very responsive.</p> <p>I've also had good experiences with Dreamhost. For those of you who don't want to know how to install Wordpress, Dreamhost has a one click install feature, and they're very cheap for the amount of space you get. </p>