Once again, I need help choosing a domain name!

Renal Shutdown · Fri 18/03/2005 23:06:18

Xylot sounds like a planet where all the inhabitants are wooden ocelots.
Terranopolis would translate as City of Humans.. or words to that effect.
TerranEx looks a bit hokey.
and Planet-R just seems like a lame cop out in a sci-fi flick, where they couldn't think of a cool name. It also seems a bit "M-Class Planet" style, where R-Class would be horrible, if it even exists.

Personally I'd go with Xylot, but have you thought about "TerranX.net"? or .org?

TerranRich · Sat 19/03/2005 02:35:57

I've thought about it, but I'm not an organization, and I guess net would be OK. But I like the ease of remembering .COM addresses. And I like Xylot as well. I think I'll go with it. And LGM, that's a great idea. A simple sign-up thing would be great, but I don't have the code savvy to program a backend-driven sign-up process. It would have to be by email, which I would have to do manually: adding people, regulating the list, etc. I would need to disable hotlinking, as well as disable direct access to directories. As for the sign-up thing, I'll see what I can find that's already coded.

AGA · Sat 19/03/2005 03:19:14

Out of interest, what host are you with that allows 70+GB of traffic?

TerranRich · Sat 19/03/2005 03:53:04

Sonoma Hosting, www.sonomahosting.com. I bid on the service on an eBay auction, where they promised me unlimited bandwidth. I decided to take them up on their offer and for under $5 a month they kept their promise. But they're going under new management and plan on canceling every account they have and making everybody sign up, as well as getting rid of promotion deals, like the one I got. So I'm bailing out while I still can.

AGA · Sat 19/03/2005 04:01:11

Heh. Seemed too good to be true.

TerranRich · Sat 19/03/2005 04:44:37

http://idesic.com/compareplans.htm

LMFAO! $20 a month for 1 GB of space and 5GB of bandwidth. I'm kicking their ass right now until my billing period's over.

I TOLD ya it was a good thing I bailed out now.

But who knows... I have the type of luck where I will cancel something and still get a few month's free stuff out of it. it's happened lots of times before.

(Like the time I signed up with American Homeowners Association simply for a free trial to get a free robo-sweeper...and ended up getting THREE of them

)

AGA · Sat 19/03/2005 05:08:55

I've shopped around extensively for good hosting deals, in various countries. ipowerweb are the best I've ever found (apart from the UK provider I used to use, Heart, but they booted me off because one of my scripts broke their server Â¬Â¬). ipowerweb are cheaper than most, and have waaay better bandwidth, database and disk space allocations than anyone else I've found. Rockin'.

TerranRich · Sat 19/03/2005 20:57:43

I don't get what the big deal is about iPowerWeb.com, seriously. LGM IMed me yesterday and mentioned it. Sure, it's OK, I mean 2GB/50GB for $7.95/mo is OK, but 5GB/50GB for $6.27/mo is even better.

And you can't pay monthly with IPowerWeb. You have to pay at least 3 months in advance.

Boo.

LGM · Sat 19/03/2005 21:20:52

You have to understand how Terran's mind works. He'll readily pay 10 bucks a month for porn.. But when it comes to web-hosting... He's a frickin' miser!

TerranRich · Sun 20/03/2005 13:28:53

I'd readily pay $20 a month if it was really good.

Erm, I mean...hey!

Bad Voo-doo man · Mon 21/03/2005 02:31:06

Only $20 bucks?! sign ME UP! errrr..i mean..what were we talkin about

TerranRich · Mon 21/03/2005 22:50:27

Xylot it is. I've registered it. To InCreator and Al_Ninio: I'm going to backup everything myself, as a free service to you.

If you have any immensely large files (such as HUGE videos or MP3s), I'll let you know that you have to re-upload these yourselves. I will also send you both new FTP information.

Hindersh: If you're out there, man, let me know you're still alive and PM me. I'll backup your site as well, but I can't PM you because I can't fiind your name on the members' list.

Renal Shutdown · Tue 22/03/2005 00:24:42

Hindy's Profile:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?action=profile;u=1307

TerranRich · Tue 22/03/2005 04:30:08

Last Active: December 19, 2004, 07:11:25 pm

Wow. OK, well here's to hoping he gets his PM.

EVerything has finally been transfered to Xylot.com, although the domain itself isn't active yet. I've placed a placeholder there that basically says "Coming soon" and "Email me".