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bladesparkI've thought for some time about leaving topcities.
On the one hand... it's been very reliable, and has plenty of space/bandwidth, etc. There isn't actually anything wrong with it, and I can count the number of times it's been down in the last five years on my fingers and have plenty left over.
On the other, it's not really set up ideally for my costume site. I'd like to have a place with a few more features, things like the ability to host my own forum instead of mooching off of Aurora, for example. And having the costume site have it's own web address. My own e-mail, me@me.com kinda thing. An address that's /really/ me.com and not me.topcities.com. Alll that good stuff.
But the real problem is that moving would break literally thousands of links. Old lj posts, tutorials on people's forums, discussions of fursuits and costumes and Windstones, suddenly they would all no longer have working photos in them! Because for years I've just tossed anything I needed to show up on my site and linked it directly. And I HATE when people have tutorials and discussions with broken pictures. The really old ones wouldn't bug me much, but the sheer pain of going through all my recent project show-off posts and updating with new pictures... ugh.
Maybe, if I find the ideal place to move to, I'll pay for both sites and just mirror instead. Use the topcities for personal stuff and random photo hosting. It's not like I can't afford a second round of $6 a month. That's not exactly going to break the bank here. I already pay more than that in advertising costs, and the benefits of the direct link to the costume site at sparkcostumes.com rather than bladespark.topcities.com/costume would almost be worth it all by itself.
Dunno, I'll have to think on it some more. Maybe after JJ's had his new site up and running for a bit, he can report on how that hosting is. It has all the fetures I really want, and is in the right price range...
On the one hand... it's been very reliable, and has plenty of space/bandwidth, etc. There isn't actually anything wrong with it, and I can count the number of times it's been down in the last five years on my fingers and have plenty left over.
On the other, it's not really set up ideally for my costume site. I'd like to have a place with a few more features, things like the ability to host my own forum instead of mooching off of Aurora, for example. And having the costume site have it's own web address. My own e-mail, me@me.com kinda thing. An address that's /really/ me.com and not me.topcities.com. Alll that good stuff.
But the real problem is that moving would break literally thousands of links. Old lj posts, tutorials on people's forums, discussions of fursuits and costumes and Windstones, suddenly they would all no longer have working photos in them! Because for years I've just tossed anything I needed to show up on my site and linked it directly. And I HATE when people have tutorials and discussions with broken pictures. The really old ones wouldn't bug me much, but the sheer pain of going through all my recent project show-off posts and updating with new pictures... ugh.
Maybe, if I find the ideal place to move to, I'll pay for both sites and just mirror instead. Use the topcities for personal stuff and random photo hosting. It's not like I can't afford a second round of $6 a month. That's not exactly going to break the bank here. I already pay more than that in advertising costs, and the benefits of the direct link to the costume site at sparkcostumes.com rather than bladespark.topcities.com/costume would almost be worth it all by itself.
Dunno, I'll have to think on it some more. Maybe after JJ's had his new site up and running for a bit, he can report on how that hosting is. It has all the fetures I really want, and is in the right price range...