I would disagree. I've been hosted by TF, GSI, Stomped, and other various hosts...
GSI continues to insist that your site is on a planet*.com subdirectory. They won't host domains like other hosts will (i.e. www.flfmod.com wouldn't be hosted by GSI, the best we could do is www.flfmod.com autoforwarding to www.planethalflife.com/frontlineforce) GSI insists that you use its forums, and provides poor support for scripting. Instead of having it nicely integrated, its separated onto another server (dynamic.gamespy.com if I'm not mistaken) Many other sites are able to securely run PHP/CGI/Whatever scripting and their web services at once, I don't see why GSI couldn't. GSI doesn't provide shell accounts. GSI doesn't provide FTP access to your site, you're instructed to use FilePlanet (The wait is 3405 minutes. Let's go!) GSI doesn't pay you for extra advertising your site generates. On the other hand, a few months ago (before the advertising market fell through) Stomped offered us a complete package (I was on Team Reaction at the time) www.teamreaction.com subdomains for each of our mods (qpong.teamreaction.com, gloom.teamreaction.com, jailbreak.teamreaction.com) script support for our own forums (we were able to keep our forum db and not have to force users to re-register) ftp access at ftp.teamreaction.com, where we could upload our files and keep a structured file environment (i.e. ftp.tr.com/pub/quake2/gloom, ftp.tr.com/pub/quake3/jailbreak/, etc) Shell accounts (especially useful to compile Linux versions of modifications quickly, without rebooting) Telnet access to our site for management - we could set our own permissions, add user accounts for FTP, mail, or WWW Stomped paid us for ad revenue we generated above whatever they needed to maintain their business (services they provided us, etc) Team Reaction.com was a medium traffic website, but we still got about $250 a month out of it. Stomped actually recently was forced to close because of dropping ad revenue, these claims are in reference to several months ago (they didn't have bloatware 2.0..erm excuse me, Gamespy Arcade 2.0 to back them up financially) Much, much more In any case, TeleFragged is currently providing pretty much the same package as above, minus the advertising payment (given the nature of the current ad market, not suprising) FLF needed a new home recently, and being familiar with what our current hosts (who offered pretty much the same deal as Stomped did) I contacted GSI. Sadly their policies still stand. "Sure we'd love to host your site! You'll have to give up the following things: your own domain, your own file server, fast downloads, scripting support, shell access, privileges to add users in your own directory, add revenue, and some other stuff" No thanks GSI. david -----Original Message----- From: dodgy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 8:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] FP charging & PHL Monopoly I've had a pretty good experience with Planet Half-Life. Their hosting services are second to none, and as far as I know, they've posted every news bulletin I've sent them.... -- dodgy aka David Hunt Leader, Uncrossable Parallel website: http://www.planethalflife.com/uncrossable/sf/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: irc.gamesnet.net:6667 #parallels icq: 93350590 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "HLCoders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] FP charging & PHL Monopoly _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
