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Hosting?

›› last update: October 20, 2008

Vickiepedia.org is not hosting in itself, but Lean-Forward.com is looking for maybe a few hostees after a recent inactive-hostee purge. Please read through all of the following if you’d really like to be hosted by me on that domain, though. The page is very long, and I love unordered lists.

Click here to jump to the list of hostees.

General No-Nos

›› I’m not always nice

I don’t think I want to host or see any of the following, especially the italicised item(s). Many potential hostees overlook it.

• types of sites:
  • forums and message boards
  • design-, review-, tutorial-only, blend challenge, rotation, top sites
  • sites used only or mainly for storage and downloads
  • browser-specific codes and general one browser-only sites
  • sites that only work in one browser resolution
• file types, scripts and services:
  • leaving files and folders CHMODed to 666 and 777 (DO NOT do that, ever! CHMOD back to 644 and 755 when done)
  • pay to blog services, ads
  • PHPFanBase (sorry, until a newer version of the script is officially re-released, please try Enthusiast, BellaBuffs or vs.hive)
  • Greymatter, Cutenews (the blogging tools)
  • outdated and insecure scripts
  • popups and popup/popunder ads
  • very large files, especially .bmps, .pngs and .mp3s
  • embedded background music or video clips
  • javascripts that mess up my browser and cursor
  • spam (please clear your hosted blogs and guestbook of spam regularly, install verification plugins, CAPTCHAs, etc.)
• others:
  • weak passwords (I cannot stress this enough!)
  • .tk or .cjb.net redirection; URL masking in general
  • sticky caps outside passwords, excessive use of internet slang and misspellings

What’s Acceptable

›› try your luck!

A list of things I don’t mind, which include, but not limited to

• no knowledge of FTP (I can teach; it’s really easy)
• no knowledge of Enthusiast, Bellabuffs, Wordpress or other PHP scripts (I will help with installation, upgrades and troubleshooting)
• borrowed/premade layouts with permission/credits
• small to medium sites, blogs, fanlistings, fansites and collectives

Anything else: try me!

What You Get

›› finally!

This is what you’ll get if I accepted you as a hostee.

• enough space (more is negotiable)
  • fanlistings: starts at 5mb
  • blogs, fansites, collectives: starts at 50mb
• unmetred bandwidth (but be reasonable!)
• subdomain(s) not already taken on Lean-Forward.com
• your own custom 404 error page and favicon (yay!)
• private FTP access (one account per subdomain)
• email forwarder or POP3 on request
• CGI, PHP and one MySQL database
• regular database backup
• HTML, CSS and some PHP help (through email or MSN)
• some script help, installation, upgrade reminders and upgrades
• a long-winded host who knows what she’s doing

Apply with working examples, i.e. not just screenshots, today!

One-line emails are probably not going to work.

Additional Notes

›› read these, too

In case you missed it: Please do not ever leave your files CHMODed to 666 and folders 777, ever. CHMOD back to 644 and 755 respectively when you’re done. If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it, or just email me to ask. Also, let me know if you ever change your email so I can still contact you.

Last but not least, please do not misspell my name…

• Welcome to Vickiepedia, the personal blog of a 23-year-old gamer geek named Vickie Diablos, who is currently in a long-term relationship with her Imaginary Girlfriend #2.

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