Might have modarate traffic pretty much any host then, always a good idea to get one as local to your audience as you can though pay for it if its UK based though. http://www.webhostingtalk.com is always a good place to have a look Ahh this is quite nice, thanks. np * herr_cheesecat has a reseller account housed somewhere in a US datacentre I have a very reliable UK contact though. I've had helpdesk emails replied to very late on Christmas eve :) * phycho did for a while too - found it slow and unresponsive after a while ended up moving to VPS. its a mixed bag with us based hosting. i know someone who sells us hosting from the uk which are pretty reliable but not well known and have a crap website, but then i know large companies such as duportonline who have a good website and crap unresponsive servers * bagpuss_thecat is quite happy with the colo machine in the states he shares with tam, ScottMac and others thats pretty much the best way to go about it bagpuss_thecat then if it breaks, you broke it and can fix it without waiting on someone else :-) it's always tam yeah but it hurts the pocket im just using a US based VPS server at the moment (have root on the host system too since i help out). best of both worlds + no pricetag :-) it is indeed always tam I find killing all his processes the best method drew - might be worth looking into VPS for a half-way in cost. lol drew: it's cheaper than virtual hosting slay ftw well, I pay 9 quid a month towards this server, and 15 quid a month for a virtual server nice. Oh that's tasty. my mx backup server (VPS) costs me $3/mo at the moment 15quid is about normal for a decent VPS though. bytemark ah. not a fan of UK based VPS's tbh. more down to bang-for-buck than anything else. wow pipex own webfusion/123reg, they seam to be buying everything haha tell me about it :( they also own nildram,f2s.. im sure ill think of someone else. funny how everything they buy turns to shit isnt it. Shame cause nildram went right down hill after, latency shot up yeah. im on newnet now. had my fair share of shit isps. drew - considered hosting your LAN site (assuming its not going to have loads of visitors at once) on the end of a DSL link? * phycho did that for a while before he hosted elsewhere im on dial up, just changed from pipex to wight cable... as you can guess pipex managed to piss me off withing the first 30 days so much that i told them to bolt. ah ayrshire then i would guess ;) not far from me i guess. * phycho is covered by wightcable I was thinking about that, just getting a static ip, mini mac fire up apachie and boom. any old machine would do really. i had a 400mhz pos serving mine up however worried that they might just cut me off when for some random reason i get 3000 hits in one day lol. not going to happen Act of god, i dont know. your DSL would just bog down hosting it on shared hosting - if you get 3000 hits in one day - would probably cut you off. drew: what kid of site are you hosting and how much bandwidth is it using? * phycho had his terminated because some moron decided to run a denial of service attack with apachebench well its the same as www.gumpcom.com, same php nuke setup *no pm's from me i havent registerd on freenode* ah was just wondering if you were starting a LAN in ayrshire? Yeah phycho thatsthe plan drew - you would be competing with us then :p http://www.ayrshirelanparty.org.uk heh. friend of mine used to run the old ayr (citadel) one. Aye David Belter no. thomas. its not competing i wouldnt think. Ahh never met him. its cool either way :-) the more the merrier. * phycho knows david through not-so-great-circumstances ah, the citagel *del I remember when it was just Ayr Baths drew - davids probably spoke about me before :-) herr_cheesecat - me also those horrible stairs are still there iirc that used to be the main staircase anyway, I'm off * herr_cheesecat -> watch DVD Yeah he might have kk l8r cheesecat drew - already got a domain and what not sorted out? theres now 3 (that i know of) lan parties down this way. ALP(us), nothingelsetodo.co.uk and divlan (david). I have an over all plan sorted out, with backing ah k cool :) best of luck! hardest part (by far) is finding a decent venue I have one sorted. k :) Power requiremnts fine, ventilation is great plus if we can get whitecable to sponcer us, net connection. The way ayrshire is situated, troon is in the center, so its troon concert hall. nice. i know someone you may want to get in contact with http://www.speednetscotland.net/ Would you mind pm'ing me your e-mail address? my sister is on speednet she says it's awful get in touch with them drew. they provide WIFI to that area.. got a better chance of pulling connectivity from them than from wightcable pinkj - thats because its just a bunch of bonded home DSL links. heh. phycho: yeah but the service is crap... apparently the guy who runs it is scared of heights so refuses to go up ladders to fix the arial hahahha drew - pm pinkj - i know him ;-) cheers at one point they used to use a dwl-900AP+ at the top of a mast for connectivity. when they first started out crikey yeah lol drew - np * pinkj disappears heh * gurumeditationer has joined #scotlug Sounds awfull. I'll e-mail them tomorrow. yeah. will be better than nothing. if the hall is council owned they may even have some form of connectivity in there ours does. whether you will be allowed to tap into it or not is another matter though :-) isdn, checked that already. ah. could be worse. but yeah.. speednet are by far your best bet for internet connectivity. cant think of anyone else who services that area No If I cant guarantee I certain level of connectivity then I wont bother. well i can tell you that its just a bunch of bonded DSL links that are qos'ed to hell and back. residential ones at that. but its better than nothing. Yep. any timeframe for the first one? ill probably nip along if nothing else is happening that date =) Just trying to sort all this all out before i have to go back to work. Im looking to host the first one in around 2 months. 40max. ah right :) nice. Depending on signup. How have yours been doing? not that great for the first one admittedly - had 11 in total without much advertisement. next month i recon we will get minimum double that though. theres one thats supposed to be happening in january that we are supposed to be sponsoring once he gets everything sorted out - its sitting at 40+ people already! (insane!) *febuary but waiting to see how our one goes first :) Yeah let me know and I will come down. k cool :) will do. probably know half the people at ours. i think turbocharge and crew used to go to GLP (David + abe). * ciaron has joined #scotlug only advice i can give really is make sure you double and tripple check the power in the hall :-) * phycho joys.. hear neds outside :/ I have an electrical engineer thats on 60k a year as a brother in law, lucky for some hehe heh. * njan has joined #scotlug not bad :-) your probably going to be screwed for overnight events though * phycho is having trouble finding a venue for those typical crappy council im afraid. well we can see how far i can wing this. council shouldnt mind if you have proper security. they do (its down to insurance). or at least, north ayrshire council does with our venue :/ the citadel were fine with it if you could provide a lifeguard. yea heh best of luck with it all anyway :-) ours is on the 20th january (yet to be confirmed) How many people do you have working on yours? I need people to help out. you mean staff? Yeah. 3 and two which i consider staff and really should be added to the staff list :-) Any1 read the sun? [ok stupid question, no1 does] but they had a bit on a club in airshyre open 36hours and was free drink, given you pay 100quid in which case, im not going to be in irvine that day :-) wait, not ayrshire. Aberdeanshire. ah. I think whats the best app to draw out a db schema? would it be dia ? drew - what sort of staff roles you looking for? no notepad and paper answers pls :) :D I remember Karbon opened in glasgow and their drinks licance had not came through yet, free drinks for 2 nights. lol drew: if only i knew. yeah me too General tech staff and website admin. Id be on a megabus in a second with that one drake drew* even I was the marketing manager for campus in glasgow until i got my job in hell. sorry dell* ah. <-- sysadmin for ALP alp? ayrshirelanparty. so has anyone got any recommendations tam - pen and paper? :-) cock lol i specifically says no pen and paper answers thats it, yer fired :D well just apt-get'd dia drew - not sure what i would advise on that one really. thinker: are you around? well you can help then. heh. well, ive got ALP to deal with - but as far as brainpicking and what not goes, go ahead :-) Nice one. Nice one. brb. Right, i have a site to make. G'nite. * drew has quit IRC ("get satisfied! • :: ««« (Gamers.IRC) »»» www.gamersirc.net ::") * Cayde has joined #scotlug