Due to a billing error on the part of our hosting service, the M* website was accidentally deleted from our hosting server. We are working on restoring the comments and posts. In the mean time all comments have been closed. Thank you for your patience.
UPDATE: It appears that our soon-to-be-former hosting service is foolish enough to run its automatic account deletion process before it runs its nightly backup processes. As a result all posts and comments made after 6/12/2006 at 1:00am have been permanently lost. We are very sorry to all who composed thoughtful posts or comments that have fallen into the abyss of inept technology.
We hope to move to a more responsible hosting service in the very near future. Comments have been re-opened and posting will resume. Feel free to recommend a good hosting service.
One of the main reasons I worry about getting my own registered website. The fools hosting it.
I’m sure we at T&S can donate a post and several hundred comments on homosexuality, if that was one of the ones you lost 🙂 We have enough and to spare.
Buy a Linux server, beef up your own home DSL service, and run it from your home. Then, you’ll become an IT guy, but then you won’t have time to post…
Or pay for someone like Yahoo to host the site.
I want to preface the following comment with: a) you asked for it, b) I’m in no way connected to LunarPages, and c) you asked for it. Also, you asked for a referral. So, yeah. Now read the spammiest thing I’ve ever posted:
The pages at LiningUp.Net have been hosted by LunarPages for about four years now. The admins repeatedly say that they adore the service, and LunarPages has been incredibly supportive, helpful and 99.5% reliable as we’ve gone from being three inches off the center of popular attention with thousands of hits per day down to a very tiny community with dozens of hits per week, back up to thousands per day, and back down to dozens per week once again (though I have to admit, they got just a little bit grouchy the day the admins posted: “we were on BoingBoing yesterday, and both Fark and Slashdot today;” I don’t recommend using them if you think you’re going to get tens of thousands of hits every day, downloading lots of images and calling up dozens and dozens of separate HTML pages, for weeks on end, as it gets a pricey to get moved to a dedicated server.) Our one and only loss of data that I know of, that wasn’t one of our own members’ faults (or the fault of EZBoard,) was on that day, and that was an emergency, as we’d apparently taken down a ton of other sites with us — we lost one hour’s worth of posts, and only because they forgot to email anyone to say “stop posting while we move you!” After the admins stopped being quite so annoyed, they switched back to really liking LunarPages. With due respect, I don’t think even a head-to-head Harry Reid/Mitt Romney presidential showdown in the general election in 2008 would get Millennial Star Slashdotted, Farked, and BoingBoinged in the space of 24 hours (I bet you never get made fun of by Tom Arnold or hit on via payphone by drunk frat boys from UofMichigan, either.)
I believe they support MySQL databases, though I’m not 100% certain (I think they must, as they sort of support, though don’t encourage, the use of Moveable Type.) My friend Peter, who has held thousands of dollars of other people’s money (and then hundreds of other people’s tickets to the opening showings of Star Wars,) and managed not to mess it up even a little bit, would tell me to say he sent you. Alyse, who managed to not completely kill a temp agency that called her as one of my references at 6am local time a few weeks ago, would probably say “they completely rescued us with their backups after we got hacked in 2004.” Though she does say, in that second link back there, that DreamHost is more amenable to MT hosting than LunarPages.
I’ve heard of some people who enjoy LunarPages, but they don’t offer a ton for the money. For $6.95 a month, you get something like 5GB of storage and 400GB bandwith a month. A much better option is globat.com, where for the same price you get 25GB of storage and 3.5 terabytes of bandwith a month. The best thing about globat is that, right now, they’ll buy you out of your old contract for up to 6 months.
Actually, that’s a good point. How much space does a blog like Millennial Star actually use? I’d assume that all these things are just .txt files, but then again, there are a lot of visual elements on the pages too, and everything on the sidebar gets reloaded every time. That could turn these blogs (anyone notice that hardly any bloggernacle types post photos?) into real bandwidth hogs.
Incidentally, it looks like being deleted makes one a target of spammers. Lots and lots of spammers.
Well, I have noticed that M* seems to get a LOT more spam posting (like right now) and, more recently, site problems than the rest of the nacle. A change of some sort seems in order.
We only get so much spam-persecution because we’re the one true blog, Seth 😉
It’s too bad that we got booted off of HostGator, because they’re awesome.
N.G —
Either Globat is overselling like mad, or they are funded by some shadowy philanthropist who feels the need to subsidize cheap web hosting, because you simply can’t make money with the type of prices that you quote for them.
My bet: they boot you off if you use too many unspecified “server resources”. Buyer beware.
Insert my standard plug for the price, service, and responsiveness of wwm.net. They’re terrific.