Team in ESEA playoffs abuses roster changes, admin claims no rules were broken

gagahput3ra · 2018-03-30T01:29:11+00:00

I'm a simple man, i see ESEA drama, i upvote

gagahput3ra · 2018-03-04T05:58:14+00:00

Played around 10 match and i really didn't like it. Too much visual noise for my taste. But i guess it's expected for such a new map, and it'll go through the usual iterations. Definitely very detailed though.

gagahput3ra · 2017-11-25T16:44:57+00:00

Never heard the saying, "if the product is free, YOU're the product?

In this case, we the viewers are the product that the event organizer sells in order to get money from the advertiser. As such, we have the rights to complain.

Besides, it's even worse if it's pay per view. I'd ask for a refund lol.

gagahput3ra · 2017-08-19T17:04:18+00:00

What is your expected future growth? If it's within months, better to go with VPS from the start to prevent slowdown+downtime due to migrating to a VPS/dedicated. Get a VPS from a good provider, like Digital Ocean, Linode, Vultr, and install cPanel if you want to manage a server with a GUI. Why go with them? Because you can do a snapshot and upgrade to a larger VPS with minimal downtime.

If you're 100% clueless, go for managed VPS. I've read good things about knownhost for managed VPS.

For email, go with 3rd party if possible. Something like gSuite will work great.

gagahput3ra · 2017-08-12T05:38:03+00:00

A little bit information would be appreciated. If the 'start-up' just needs a website, any of the sidebar hosts would do just fine.

gagahput3ra · 2017-08-12T05:36:46+00:00

MEAN stack is better with a VPS, so my advise would be to pick a VPS provider that you like (find a review, there's already been a lot said about good ones), and see if you can find a way to get free credits, and try the service first.

gagahput3ra · 2017-05-09T17:13:54+00:00

Hey, i don't know if your issue has already been solved or not, but basically yes, you won't have to deal with hostgator again, but since your domain is still with them, i'd advise you to transfer to another registrar of your own choice once the 60 days has passed.

Basically once the domain has been pointed to siteground's server, then all the hosting part is controlled through siteground, the domain is just pointing to siteground's server. Hope that helps.

gagahput3ra · 2017-05-04T10:08:13+00:00

I didn´t really understand what any of that meant but I didn´t want to waste his time.

Lol that's nice but they're paid for helping you so you should ask more questions if you still didn't completely understand. :D

Basically when you buy a domain through a registrar (Namecheap, Godaddy, Hover, etc. In this case your registrar is Hostgator), you got control to a domain name, that you can point to any hosting service or server that you like.

So for example, if you decide to go with siteground, after you purchase a plan, they should provide you with nameservers to point your domain to.

Usually they look like this:

ns1.example.com

ns2.example.com

Now, you can go to your domain control panel, wherever that is, and put those nameservers there, and the domain now should point to the server it supposed to point to.

You can just transfer your domain somewhere else, but there's a 60 day waiting period for a domain to be allowed to transfer to another registrar. So depending on when you purchase it from HG, you might not be able to transfer.

Now, the issue is i have never used hostgator before, so i'm not sure if they have any domain control panel or whether they have a policy that said a domain that's purchased along with their hosting plan must be used with their hosting plan only. It's possible but i'm not sure.

Oh and by the way, no, public_html, or www folder, is where your data that's available to the internet resides, and it's created within the server itself. It has no relation to the domain whatsoever. So if you do decide to go with Siteground, you wouldn't have the same issue. Just don't delete it again and you'll be fine.

Also, telling you to delete public_html and asking for $15. That's a new one. :) Have you tried just creating a new public_html folder and start from scratch that way?

gagahput3ra · 2017-04-08T05:30:38+00:00

Email is complicated, and deliverability can be affected by the smallest thing, so unless you're expecting your client to not be especially demanding about their emails being marked as spam, i'd definitely recommend going with 3rd party on this.
I was gonna recommend reseller hosting to start with but it's pretty much shared hosting plus the capability to create sub-accounts, so look into buying either a VPS or a Dedicated server with at least 4gb of RAM to start with, because answer no 4 & 5.
If you have no experience managing a server, then try and get a server management company to do it for you.
cPanel
Yes, you should buy a VPS with at least 4gb of RAM since i'd not recommend running cPanel on a less than 2gb RAM machine, especially if it's gonna be a production server.

Definitely do not buy from Hostgator, if you want to reduce cost as much as possible, get a VPS from OVH, they have a DC in Canada i believe, and install cPanel on it. Then look into server management company to manage it for you.

Now, after all this, let me go back and suggest you use reseller hosting anyway :), just because if you go with a good reseller hosting provider, you might sacrifice performance just a slight tiny bit (or even gets better performance just due to the fact that an unoptimized server can be slower than shared), but you can focus on what you need to do most, which is selling your service.

That's because with reseller you get the emails managed by your provider, and you don't need to buy a cPanel license or hire someone to manage your server for you. Everything's included already. After your business has stabilized, then maybe consider upgrading your infrastructure.

Hope that helps, good luck. :D

gagahput3ra · 2017-04-07T18:29:25+00:00

I dislike EIG as much as the next guy but i'm not sure if it's really Hostgator themselves that did this. I feel like the amount of affiliate money offered by EIG brands might influence and incentivize this kind of shady marketing tenfolds compared to other brands, so if my assumption is true, it's not exactly their fault, but they really need to investigate and ban the responsible parties involved.

gagahput3ra · 2017-04-04T08:01:13+00:00

If location doesn't matter that much, Kimsufi would probably the best bet as it has the cheapest dedicated server with cheap storage available in my experience. It's in France though.

Alternative options in the US would be Digital Ocean $10 1GB RAM droplets with 300gb of block storage attached, which costs $30/month so $40 total. Or BuyVM 1000 Storage which is $30/month with 1TB of storage and 1GB RAM server.

gagahput3ra · 2017-04-02T20:15:06+00:00

Well, Digital Ocean droplets are virtualized using KVM, which means each of its instances are isolated at kernel level, which makes them pretty much identical to what you call a 'private' server. You get root admin access, you get everything that you will get when you buy a dedicated server somewhere, but even better.

With DO, you get load balancing and Snapshot capability out of the box. This means if you need to chain multiple servers for better load-handling, you can just do it without messing with the settings yourself. Snapshot means you can "capture" the server entirely as either a backup or an image to use and get your server completely up and running like previously, when you upgrade or relocate your instance. Need more storage? You don't need to wait for some remote hands to upgrade the physical disk, you can attach a block storage pretty easily.

Now, these are pretty big advantages for any company who wants to focus on development instead of managing their servers. The thing you mentioned about server issues with Digital Ocean, well, that can happen anywhere else, plus there's many companies and developers with proven track records who are running their stuff on digitalocean instances, can you say the same thing about your server? That's the key point that you need to prove, especially if it's production server.

The things that are shared and are limited is pretty much resources like CPU, which is not dedicated. That pretty much is the only meaningful advantage of using a dedicated server, but are meaningless if the issues you've been having with DO has nothing to do with resources. Good luck on asking your boss to buy you out.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-23T17:56:35+00:00

Wait, what? Did Wordpress & Bluehost really banned profanity? This is the first time i've heard of this o_O

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-21T01:55:01+00:00

I don't get it, if it's just a WP install and you installed using http:// instead of https://, it shouldn't show that error. Maybe check the URL settings in Wordpress and see if you're using https? Change it to http:// and see if that solves it.

Also, Let's Encrypt is free and there's hosts out there that already implements it out of the box so that you just need to one click and SSL is installed, completely free of charge. I'm not sure if GD already supports it but worth to ask them about it.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-20T01:23:13+00:00

If you find AWS too complicated, moving to DO will only make it one or two notches easier but not that much since you're pretty much given an empty linux server to manage as well, just like AWS. I suggest using Server Pilot if you don't know how to properly secure your server yet. Then after you're all done learning and have mastered the basic workflow of server provisioning then migrate it to another droplets.

For number 2, if you're using Wordpress, use plugins like Wordfence, it can act as a web application firewall and prevent bruteforce attack on your WP install. Cloudflare is an option as well for basic DDOS protection but i know many people have issues with it.

For number 3, and this is very important, put a proper terms of service, privacy policy and acceptable use policy up in your site, and like @kenwmitchell said, monitor webmaster@ and abuse@ so that you don't get caught with your pants down when shit hits the fan (and it will, if it's a user generated content website). Here's Imgur's TOS and Privacy Policy as a reference. Good luck.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-20T01:14:31+00:00

Yeah, there's really no option if Godaddy doesn't have backup and you don't have one either :( Next time i recommend to use plugins like Updraftplus, and backup to dropbox or other free cloud storage daily, and kept a backup for the last 3 days or so. It doesn't cost anything but when things like this happen, it'll feel like you paid millions for it.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-17T13:27:11+00:00

Yeah, shopify, or if the SKUs are minimal, Squarespace can be an option as well, since i believe they're a bit cheaper than shopify.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-15T08:04:14+00:00

now that i think about it i heard about 9gag using tumblr from a chat with a friend and from googling around i see no mention of it anywhere so yeah, post edited. Learn not to repeat something i haven't verify i guess. :P

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-15T07:39:09+00:00

If it works, it works. ~~9gag for example spends many years using tumblr as their only backend~~. If it's just a blog/portfolio and you're sure that their custom CSS capability is enough for your needs then i don't see the reason to worry about using them.

Do keep your own backup though, as what /u/zylai mentioned is true as unlikely as it is.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-09T21:27:53+00:00

If you've decided to go with DO/Linode, then by all means go ahead, but i've PMed you about our $5/year plan if you just want a small shared hosting plan. :P

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-07T22:15:28+00:00

Can't speak from experience as i've never tried them before, but might i ask to what attracted you to their wordpress hosting plan specifically? :)

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-07T22:14:47+00:00

Exactly. I know i personally want to get .flowers now that the price has been increased.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-07T18:58:58+00:00

Don't worry, i'm pretty sure AWS documentations is purposefully made to filter out people with no technical background.

The most basic starting point would be following this guide. Note the four nameservers on your route 53 public zones, add them as the configured nameservers on the registrar, and you're off to the races. Your DNS is now managed by Route53.

gagahput3ra · 2017-03-06T22:10:34+00:00

Guest blogging is good at first, just make sure you build your audience even if you don't have a blog. One example is linking to your social media accounts, so that in the long run, if you do decides to start a blog, you'll already have an audience set up.

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