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Hi Ani,

What's your xepher.net username? If you give me that, I can check the logs on the server to see what the problem is. If you're not a xepher.net member, you may need to contact your actual webhost for help with your SSH connection problem.

What exactly is timing out? SCP? If that's the case, do note that there's a lockout for bad passwords. If you mistype your password or something a few times in a row it'll lock you out for several hours (and longer if you keep trying.)

Saw that you have some of the site up... just a quick note. Your main background image... http://the-alts.com/the%20alternates%20web%20complete_ver01.jpg is 1.4MB in size. It'd literally take an entire floppy disk to store that. Which, yes, floppies outdated and all that, but considering every single page of your site requires loading that entire image, it means it will suck up a HUGE amount of bandwidth if your site gets even remotely popular. The background is nearly twice as large as the comic itself. If you look at your stats  http://alternates.xepher.net/awstats/awstats.pl your site is using about 7.5MB per visit! Compare that with some of the other large comic sites here like missmab.com or senshuu.com at 500kb and 300kb respectively. You don't have to squeeze down quite that small of course, and it'll be less for frequent visitors who'll have the unchanging things like background cached more often, but do try to conserve bandwidth just a bit. No worries for now while you're still working on stuff though, we've got a lot of bandwidth to spare, but before you get much traffic, it'd be good to have it optimized.

Sorry, I should have caught this earlier... you didn't list a username you wanted. As per the application instructions, it'll be part of your URL (when/if not using your own domain.) I've gone ahead and used "alternates" and you should get an email soon with a password and instructions.

Well, I haven't set up the account yet. As I mentioned in email though, I will... I work an odd schedule and have to rush off to work right now. Tomorrow is the start of my weekend though. If you don't hear something from me in a day or so, remind me!

Well, if you actually sent it to xApher.net it's not gonna work. My admin@ address is on the same site as here... xepher.net, with an E :-)

Sounds good, just let me know when you've got something to show. No rush.

I've "installed" the server and have it running. I don't have Minecraft though, so...

Anyway, if anyone wants admin access to it, I've set up a minecraft user on the server, and it's running the MC server in a screen. Apparently you can type commands directly into console there. Let me know if you want to admin it (and if you're someone I trust, e.g. anyone in this thread so far) message me, and I'll give you the password to login. In the meantime, I would assume anyone that wants can connect, so someone needs to figure out how to lock that down. :-)

Well, the comic samples look pretty damn good. If you're up to 42 actual pages already at that quality, that shows some commitment too. My one question is if either of you have any experience making/maintaining a website. You're welcome to use stuff like comicpress or other CMS systems to simplify it, but there's nothing built in or provided by xepher.net for that. If you're comfortable with web development stuff though, it should be a shoe-in.

The "undefined index" thing should've been fixed as of last night. I moved to a new apartment over the weekend, and I've barely been online. As soon as I got the computer hooked up at the new place, Texas went through "rolling blackouts" because apparently the idea that water turns solid below 32f is new to the power company.

As for IPv6... if/when softlayer (the datacenter I'm hosted with) provides it for free, I'll support it. I won't pay extra for it though, as it's useless to 99% of people right now.

Well, figure out what you need from me, and let me know. Though I imagine you can probably run it from your shell account already.

I think I may have found the problem. During the upgrade, I switched to a new DNS server, and it no longer supports the "alias" datatype that I was using before. I switched it to CNAMES, as almost all the aliases work just as well as CNAMES. I forgot that this technically violates the DNS RFC, so some (really picky) DNS implementations won't work properly. I've corrected this, and in another couple hours or so, all the TTLs should expire. If you continue to have problems, please let me know, as I'd really like to pin this down for good.

I did some upgrades the other night, and you may have hit some errors for about 4-8 hours while I worked on things.It should've all been sorted by the next morning though. If you're still having trouble, let me know.

Yeah, I was figuring the 12-player size thing if a few people here wanted to have a co-op environment. 250GB/month isn't too bad, so I'm still open to the idea if someone wants to try it.

Do they have a linux server? I'd consider running one on xepher.net if you could manage/admin it. I'd need to make sure it wasn't gonna chew up all our bandwidth or anything, but for a couple dozen people, it'd probably be no problem.