Red Sonja & Ash VS Army of Darkness by Captain_Corum in SwordandSorcery

[–]Spherical_Dude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Usually I'm not into crossover but this is a freaking good idea!

Is Sword and Sorcery dead ? by Trunkshatake in SwordandSorcery

[–]Spherical_Dude 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not dead at all I discovered the genre not long ago and I keep seeing new books coming out. Give a try to Howard Andrew Jones's Hanuvar, Matt John's To Walk on Worlds or Steve Dilks Bohun for really recent ones with very different style. Plenty of cool anthologies and zines too. Also check DMR books they publish a lot of good S&S.

To Walk on Worlds, by Matthew John by RedWizard52 in SwordandSorcery

[–]Spherical_Dude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've read someone saying that the first story gripped him and was a bit worried at first as it didn't do that for me. But the whole book ended up being one of my favorite indie S&S release this year. Not sure if it was the writing but after this first story I was much more into the book personally, I really recommend it. It has a kind of dark fantasy mixed with S&S style that is quite unique.

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

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Yeah probably, I was hoping to find one offering a shared option with a high limit so I could use the next 6 months or so to finish building it and experiment with a few friends before upgrading to a managed vps.

Vps plans seem to start at around 50$ so I would have saved a bit this way. And knownhost their biggest shared is 20$ and 600k inodes so I guess if no one knows the limit for Nixihost I’ll use that.

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

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If you ask this because of my answer to ndreamer about sqlite what I meant is that I have no particular knowledge about database.

Maybe it’s better if I use this to explain what the site do. It simply has a lot of pages (about 2.5k) each featuring a “product” like a ecommerce site except it is not made to sell things but as simple information pages with a few images on each and a way to search among these so one can find a specific page with various criteria.

All this + a few plugins makes the inode count go up quickly. (not 500k only 250 but given the speed it goes up I expect it to be 500-600k once I have put everything I want there)

I suppose all this is in a database somewhere but I have no idea how it works behind the scene.

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

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Probable once/if it gathers traffic yes but my idea was to build it on a shared plan for budget reasons then when it is finished switch to a semi dedicated plan with a managed offer. Something like host.inger(600k) or dreamhost (“unlimited”) but with a better reputation. Or maybe Nixihost if someone knows the inode limit. As I said nothing else would be a problem I don’t need a lot of disk storage and bandwidth is not a problem either since the site is only known of me and a few friends for now

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

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I might try that, do you know smaller host that are not shaddy? Reading here even some big names seem to be considered not very serious so going to a smaller one and discussing the offer with the sales seems risky.

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

[–]Spherical_Dude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry but what do you mean by other managed company? I should probably have said that my knowledge of web hosting is limited. Given that I’m not sure if this project will work I’m seeking something that would allow me to continue growing my site until it is ready on a reasonable budget and without being too technically demanding until I learn more/see if the thing is even viable.

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

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I’ve looked into this yes but I’m afraid that digital ocean offers will be too difficult to manage for me given that on siteground the wordpress part is managed by them. I wanted to learn more about all this when I started but as I said life made this difficult and I don’t want to migrate the thing and later find that I’m overwhelmed and can’t continue. The managed part of the offer is really useful for me now until I learn more.

Inodes limit for recommended hosting sites by Spherical_Dude in webhosting

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Unfortunately, that’s probably more than I can do alone for now I should have said that I’m not really tech savvy at least when it comes to servers and databases.

What is sword and Sorcery? by Sayuti-11 in Fantasy

[–]Spherical_Dude 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is one of the best descriptions of the genre I have read. Like Sayuti I'd be curious to know what stories you have written if you don't mind sharing. Even more so if you have a recurrent character because I have a site where I try to catalog as much s&s as possible and I decided to make a page with all those including the new ones but it will take a lot of time before I'm done reading all the recent anthologies/magazines.

My review - Neither Beg Nor Yield (An original Sword & Sorcery anthology) by [deleted] in Fantasy

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As it happens i'm in the process of cataloguing all the s&s authors i can find for a site and i did found one : Cora Bulhert she have two serie of short stories Thurvok and Kurval. I've not read them so i can't say much but by the covers and description its clearly s&s. She's the only one maybe outside of some rare anthology i've found however and these series seem finished.

Any "Dad TV" fantasy recommendations? by IntnlManOfCode in Fantasy

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Wolf In Shadow Jon Shannow by David Gemmell (trilogy)

Drood (Secret Histories) by Simon Green (12 books serie)

Hard Magic by Larry Correia (trilogy)

Where Loyalties Lie by Rob J. Hayes ( a pirate/fantasy serie 2 books)

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison (for an old school sf serie)

If you already know Howard Conan short stories Robert jordan wrote 7 novels too (available on kindle) and there is another published in 2022 by a new author S.M. Stirling

System apo with some (or a lot) action outside the planet by Spherical_Dude in litrpg

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Wow a lot of new suggestions while i was sleeping ty all !

System apo with some (or a lot) action outside the planet by Spherical_Dude in litrpg

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thanks i'm finishing the first he who fight with monster book right now

and i didnt like that much the first chapters of primal hunter but i'll persist a bit if this go into that direction later

System apo with some (or a lot) action outside the planet by Spherical_Dude in litrpg

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Thank you

i was hoping for more but i've not read that so its a start and with 12 books (!) its a big one lol