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Scotty the Great
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posted February 24, 2003 18:24

Well, it turns out that Scotty the Great's Fallout Community will undergo another URL change. It turns out that the registration for NPA goes out in a few months. So instead of renewing it, Kharn (the guy in charge) plans to just get a new one. When that happens, the URL will change for the site, but everything should be moved untouched, which means not much work for the move is required.

Now comes the tough part. I can either go with this and stay on Kharn's server, or try some other alternatives. One is I could ask Phil over at V52 to host my site. Another is I could look around and see if I could find a cheap server where I could place my site. If I would do that, the site would have a URL that could be something like www.stgfc.com. So let me know what you guys think and any opinions you guys got.

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Stapes Paragon Member # 2 Member Rated:	posted February 24, 2003 19:27 I actually think that you should stay with Kharn. If it is just a small little change, then there won't be much of a downtime, and I could live with that.
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Scotty the Great
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posted February 24, 2003 22:45

Not much down time, but I would have to go around to all the search engines and submit the new URL for my site. That's the biggest pain in the ass. Plus, no matter how much warning is given, I'm sure that there will be some people who fail to follow the change in URL.

So I'm saying that if I'm going to have to change my URL, submit it to all search engines, and probably lose a bunch of people in the process, I want to make the move more worthwhile or something. And besides, no matter which is chosen, as long as I make up my mind relatively soon, there will not be a lot of down time.

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Gauss Vault Veteran Member # 108 Member Rated:	posted February 25, 2003 10:09 I too think taht u should stay here. -------------------- No one is perfect
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rad-x
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posted February 25, 2003 13:40

Hmm...I suppose a switch to V52 wouldn't be all bad.

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Hmm...not as bad as it sounds. The regulars are all Wisconsin buddies really (or so I have gathered) and if they haven't moved already, the chances are they won't ever.

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Stapes Paragon Member # 2 Member Rated:	posted February 25, 2003 15:26 Well, Scotty, you said that submitting the url to the search engines would be a pain in the ass. Wouldn't you have to submit the url no matter what? We would lose members no matter what, because some people don't visit the forums all the time, and they wouldn't know about the changes.
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FALLOUTGOD Wandering Hero Member # 94 Member Rated:	posted February 25, 2003 15:58 I know about it! Thank god I decided to post insted of to studying right away. -------------------- xcuse me while i kill my self blow my brain across the wall fuck you all, how do you do fuck me? fuck you too and now i end this all xcuse me while...... i kill my seeeeeeeeeeeeeelf
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Scotty the Great
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posted February 25, 2003 16:43

Yeah Stapes, but my point is, if I gotta do all the work of resubmitting the URL and losing some visitors, I might as well make it worth it. I hope for this to be the last time the site ever has to move. Odds are that there wouldn't be any future moves after this, but then again that's what it was when I first moved to NPA (oh, looks like my site URL won't change again, I found a permanent home!)

The only way that the URL would surely stay the same is if I registered my own domain.

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Stapes Paragon Member # 2 Member Rated:	posted February 26, 2003 15:27 Well, you would still have to resubmit everything, so why make more work for you? All you would have to do is submit the change. What else would you have to do?
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Scotty the Great
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posted February 27, 2003 16:07

Ugh, as I tried explaining already Stapes, no matter which of these ways I choose for the site, IT'LL STILL BE ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF WORK FOR ME!

The risk, and work, is exactly the same.

Right now, it's leaning more and more towards me finding a new server, because currently my site is taking up about 42MB of space. Kharn is already over his limit, and asked me to skim out some unnecessary files to get the size of my site down. I can maybe get it down by a few MBs, but it wouldn't be that significant. With that in mind, I don't know if Kharn would still be happy to let me smootch off of him.

So chances are this weekend I'll decide on a new domain name. Feel free to make suggestions.

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Scotty the Great Paragon Member # 1 Member Rated:	posted February 27, 2003 17:35 Ok, some available domains are: www.stgfc.com www.fallout-community.com www.deathclaws.com www.ghoul-community.com www.glowing-ones.com www.scottys-crib.com If you want to suggest a domain, go to http://hosting.verio.com/index.php/sweepstakes.html and check the availability first. Otherwise, lemme know what you guys think.
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Stapes Paragon Member # 2 Member Rated:	posted February 27, 2003 18:23 stgfc.com is what I would say.
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FALLOUTGOD Wandering Hero Member # 94 Member Rated:	posted February 27, 2003 19:42 JELLO.COM ... i don't know... -------------------- xcuse me while i kill my self blow my brain across the wall fuck you all, how do you do fuck me? fuck you too and now i end this all xcuse me while...... i kill my seeeeeeeeeeeeeelf
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Scotty the Great Paragon Member # 1 Member Rated:	posted February 27, 2003 23:35 Well, it probably will be stgfc.com because that was my original idea.
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Slurrydevil
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posted February 28, 2003 00:41

Well I reckon you just go for your own domain name, then itll cut out the crap associated with having someone else host your site, hopefully.

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Scotty the Great Paragon Member # 1 Member Rated:	posted February 28, 2003 11:38 Yeah. Plus, from what I understand, I should have the NPA subdomain where my site is now for a few months yet, I can just set up some temp pages redirecting traffic. And hopefully get search engines to point to the new site by then.
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Knight_Wolf Wandering Champion Member # 92 Member Rated:	posted February 28, 2003 17:18 Yea I think the best would be www.stgfc.com -------------------- If a man in a purple robe was crossing a bridge but snaps as he falls to his death and nobody is there to hear does he make a noise?
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Gauss Vault Veteran Member # 108 Member Rated:	posted March 01, 2003 07:59 well,if everyone think so,than who am I to argue? www.stgfc.com -------------------- No one is perfect
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Scotty the Great Paragon Member # 1 Member Rated:	posted March 01, 2003 14:42 Ok, stgfc.com it is! I registered the domain, and depending how quickly the DNS updates, you should be able to visit it within the next 24-48 hours.
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MAD-Matt Outsider Member # 88 Rate Member	posted March 04, 2003 19:59 hey i like the new look and i see no problems i think you guys worry to much -------------------- http://www.scooterdeath.com/ proud to be a crap farmer-MST3K
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Scotty the Great Paragon Member # 1 Member Rated:	posted March 04, 2003 20:21 Neh, you can never worry too much, especially with a matter so great as a SMALL FALLOUT WEB SITE! Er.......
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