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Pecon:

--- Quote from: Tezuni 2.0 on February 25, 2014, 06:29:25 PM ---There is no infrastructure, no development, nothing to show.
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--- Quote from: Lugnut on February 24, 2014, 07:23:21 PM ---

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I think you forgot to look with your eyes.

otto-san:

--- Quote from: Rub on February 25, 2014, 06:26:21 PM ---Can also confirm we didn't make off with loads of profit!

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yeah, $100 a month is not really a lot

i personally don't care if the service is profiting from me or not because a) profit is motivation, b) profit insures longevity, c) i'm not some kind of hippy that thinks it's unfair for people to make money off me for providing a service

so long as the price is reasonable and the service is of substantial quality does it matter to that the person providing it gains from providing the service? what is the downside to this?

i suppose the context adds a bit of shadiness to it. in the end, maybe it literally all comes down to how much you trust the service provider. i personally trust lugnut because he's a really cool guy and seems levelheaded enough to not run some kind of scam hosting service.

YayFun:

--- Quote from: Tezuni 2.0 on February 25, 2014, 06:29:25 PM ---Probably. But to be blunt, Lug still comes across as a totally incompetent kid that wants everoyne to pile on his crappy choice of VPS on which he has slapped the label 'hosting service'. There is no infrastructure, no development, nothing to show. I said this before, but just to reiiterate, there is no need to go through Lug for hosting. In fact, it would be more difficult to depend on him to maintain it and process everyone than it would be to just buy a vps and download blockland and your ftp program of choice if desired.

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Not everyone knows how to setup and use a server though, so in some cases going through a host is a great option.

Hammereditor5:

--- Quote from: Tezuni 2.0 on February 25, 2014, 06:29:25 PM ---Probably. But to be blunt, Lug still comes across as a totally incompetent kid that wants everoyne to pile on his crappy choice of VPS on which he has slapped the label 'hosting service'. There is no infrastructure, no development, nothing to show. I said this before, but just to reiiterate, there is no need to go through Lug for hosting. In fact, it would be more difficult to depend on him to maintain it and process everyone than it would be to just buy a vps and download blockland and your ftp program of choice if desired.

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It's better to have a crappy hosting service that no hosting service at all.
Lugnut mentioned that he'll make a control panel later. Why not serve the clients who need it now, and who don't care about infrastructure?

Lugnut:

--- Quote from: Hammereditor5 on February 25, 2014, 06:40:51 PM ---Lugnut mentioned that he'll make a control panel later. Why not serve the clients who need it now, and who don't care about infrastructure?

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this was kinda the idea all along
I've been working on getting the first 4 clients set up for about 3.5 hours now, and I've been stuck on one single error - the Blockland servers aren't authenticating.
In the interest of not seeming like an ass/trying to steal people's money, I'll be refunding the first 4 clients totally if I cannot get the system working by 4:30PM PST (30 minutes)
I would refund them right now but I have a few things I'd like to try before giving up.

After refunding them, I'll lock this topic and continue work attempting to fix the issue. Since Blockland servers can be run successfully on Linux hosts, I just have to find out the specific configuration that is giving me issues. Assuming I can get things working, I'll unlock and bump the topic. Now that I have a tiny bit of experience, I can see a number of other potential issues that might creep up, so I'll catch and test to make sure those issues don't show up.
Additionally, I have the VPS for a whole month, so I can test things on the exact system they'll be running on in production, so that'll trim out any hangups there.I'd like to point out that this was almost a closed beta (see "wip" in the title) - I wasn't expecting everything to work flawlessly this time around. If it had, great, but I was prepared for issues... just not issues of this magnitude.

Thank you to everyone with support, and thanks for the constructive criticism, particularly of my choice in hosting .

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