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I just bought a new node

The specs are:

Disk Space: 70GB
Bandwidth: 300GB
RAM: 512MB
If you wish to be transferred please leave a comment with your account name or you can email me at mike.spears@ismyhost.com

This new node is a high end VPS from Crissic.

Domain Name: ismyhost.net

You can email me at mike.spears@ismyhost.com

You can also IM me in Second Life at Mike1 Twine

You can get Second Life at http://secondlife.com

For those not in the loop, a number of months ago Antony was behind a false promise of 6 high-end dedicated servers which would, in effect, solve all our hardware-related problems. This promise continued, shifting the focus of 2 months of valuable time that could have been used to find a different solution that was at least decent to meet our needs.

The ploy was expertly executed, with ongoing relentless stories of the struggle to configure and set up the servers. I was even sent links to a WHM panel on 3 occasions, and initally shown a website which proved to be his (on a fast-loading server, I might add). A part of me was skeptical, another hoped for the best, and yet another was looking at all the evidence presented in his story. Still, I vowed not to let this slip until I knew it was true. As time went on however, and the server problems worsened, I had to give hope to my clients. I invited Antony to announce the server at one of our meetings.

Works at ESET… I wish!

One day he staged to be an older brother and informed me that his younger brother Antony was very good at coming up with creative stories such as this one. When I found a few holes in this new story, he came forth with what I believe may be the final truth. He had, in the beginning a dream to find these servers and offer them to us. He thought he could, but they were too expensive to afford in the end. He kept up the story hoping against hope he could finish it with a happy ending. But he couldn’t.

Most recently, I have just been informed there were attacks taking place against his server and verbal attacks through MSN. I would just like to request that these stop, since I don’t consider him an enemy nor advocate retaliation of this kind. Thanks everyone.

He keeps asking repeatedly how he can fix this, but there really isn’t much. He did offer us free SSL certificates a while ago, which I might consider. If you can think of anything better he can do, do let me know.

Okay, I’ve completed the final calculation and assigned everyone to their nodes. (Accounts are not all created.)

However, I’m discovering that there are still about 300-400 clients who don’t fit anywhere. There are a few options:

1. Squeeze them on the VPS, which may introduce vulnerabilities and it wont be an exclusive server anymore.
2. Raise through donations now to buy another node.
3. Find another node somewhere.
4. Wait without the accounts created until enough revenue is generated, then go for the new node. (Anywhere from a couple weeks to another month.)

Any ideas?

http://haloclan.us/forumhost

Post the URL’s of the themes u want added.

The hosted forums are running on phpBB3

It’s good to know that some people still visit the site. These are not easy times. Since I’ve been asked this a lot, there are a number of ways you can help.

1. Download our toolbar. It works on most common browsers, is free, contains no spyware, adware, or viruses, and has tons of useful features. It gives you direct updates from our blog and when you search with it, you help support us financially.
2. Place Google AdSense on any popular website. It doesn’t have to be hosted with us. Just send us a link to your site and we can send you code.
3. Donate $5 CDN, $5 USD, $5 AUD, £5 GBP, or €5 EUR. This will go towards establishing more nodes and supporting the ones we have for next month. (Just a few people donating is a huge help. If everyone that could did, that would be awesome.)
4. Buy a domain for $15/yr. Just email us if this interests you more than a donation. Nameservers can be anything.
5. If you may be interested in providing us with another node, see the criteria below.
6. Know of any good items we should sell for credits. (We have no budget to buy at this point.)
7. Keep checking the blog. Stay active here. Make more comments. Be optimistic. Never lose hope.

As for when the site will be back online, I’m expecting 4 days to get the main site online and improve the admin panel to work with nodes. Then I will be starting to create and fix accounts over the next 4 days.

Some recent decisions:

• We will not be using SmokyHosts anymore. Those hosted there will have to be relocated to another node elsewhere. Clients who cannot do this themselves will be able to get assistance from administrators given this task. There is 3 weeks to get all data transfered. (Check previous posts to find out why SmokyHosts is unsuitable.)
  
• No more free domains will be offered until we are re-established. There are higher priorities at this time. (We are, however, looking at getting other items up for sale soon.)
• We are taking time right now to make sure things are all working, and will not go offline in the future. This is instead of making sure things are online really quickly now, but liable to go down again in the future.

Becoming a Node Criteria

• A reseller, VPS, or dedicated server with cPanel installed and powerful enough to handle at least 100 accounts. Storage and bandwidth requirements are usually 5MB/50MB per account, assuming you have overselling enabled.
• Make sure ‘Free Hosting’ is allowed by the TOS of any company you are hosting with. If there are any additional restrictions, those should also be mentioned.
• A good domain starting with ‘is’. The extension should be .com, .net, or .org. If your domain is different, you will still be considered.
• Up to the task of monitoring the node to keep it online.
• You will need to set up packages on the WHM. Details will be emailed.
• Obviously we will need access to your account.

We have scripts all ready to create the accounts on your node, as well as performing updates to those accounts. Once you get it set up, all you need to worry about is keeping it working.

Thanks For Reading!

I have superbhost.us ready to accept accounts to signup for free goto http://superbhost.us/creator

I just bought a node. When its up the URL is http://superbhost.us

I have finally completed the script to create accounts on our first node, IsMyWs.com, and from here the others will be only a slight modification. This means, as I write this, 750 accounts are being created.

I also have a script creating the first 1000 sub-domains (there are 8000 of these to build) and have rigged up a system so that every single subdomain can be controlled with 1 file. (This means, to create massive changes later I only edit one file.)

So, sub-domains will be able to redirect to the main site, or if it’s down they can be programmed to display the unfortunate news.  Lots of applications for this new functionality in other areas as well. Here’s an overview of all automated tasks which will be programmed to bring the site online this weekend hopefully:

1. Creation of accounts on IsMyWs.com (250/750 complete.)
2. Creation of subdomains. (Programmed, and working hard.)
3. Email script to send you your details. (Still under construction.)
4. Creation of accounts on IsNumberOne.org (Still under construction.)
5. Modification of domains on IsMyWebs.com (Still under construction.)

After all this, 2500 accounts will be fully online. We then start our massive campaign to get ads on these sites and ensure our survival. Any ideas for this?

Hello I am IsMyWebsite’s Server Admin, and our new server is setup and the accounts will be created on it soon.